I have met women who don't have close women friends, and I've always been like, "How could that possibly be?"

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

In all your getting, get understanding.

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.

I'd rather die holding on to the love I believe in, than to live embracing a love that's a lie.

She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.

Everybody's not always open to everything. People have biased feelings about certain things, especially in the hip-hop world. The hip-hop world hates homosexuality.

I believe that comedians do what they do, and then they get credit or criticism for doing it. There's nothing planned about this.

In an odd way (the death of John Daly) is cheering news!