I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.

Either way, it happened, and everyone was going to pretend that it didn't.

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Don't look for your dreams to come true; look to become true to your dreams.

Anytime you feel jealous or envious, you reject your uniqueness. It's a criticism of God's plan for you.

Be genuine. Be remarkable. Be worth connecting with.

I believe in UFOs, I believe in extraterrestrials, and I believe in angels. And maybe they'll protect all of us.

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.