I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.

Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn’t now, then where did it go ?

There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.

But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then.

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.

The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives.

When I start writing novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry, rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.

No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain.

Loneliness was an inseparable part of being human.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

I'm definitely the super-cool dad.

I have no time for things that have no soul.

America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out.

I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned

I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.

Philosophy is unbelievably inspiring to me.

It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy.

You never know when one act, or one word of encouragement can change a life forever.