I’ll make a swing so I can reach the places I can’t reach yet.

I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.

You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.

dear today, i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.

He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.

This is what I want so don't be sad.

No, " I say. "I didn't know that, " and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me.

That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.

I was such a quiet kid, so shy and calm and in my own head. Of course I knew about being sad. Maybe that's the reason I saved all the things I thought were pretty.

He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, 'O, teach me how I should forget to think!' I, for the first time, see what the big deal is about Shakespeare.

A little truth seasons a lie like salt.

To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.

I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.

Love yourself and don't settle for less than what you deserve.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the truth that she discovers is profoundly political.

In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation.

You can hardly do anything that won't seem stupid later.

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine; Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine.