I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.

Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.

The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice.

I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.

People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.

Hope is a pocket of possibility. I'm holding it in my hand.

According to Robert, his friend Moses was a soldier in the first war, as he described it. He fought Indians and soldiers in red coats.

Love in a hut with water and a crust Is - Love forgive us! - cinders ashes dust.

Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet.

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

Yoga is your mind control capacity.

Computation involves going from a question to an answer. Mathematics involves going from an answer to a question.

I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.

We can make our houses homes and our homes heavens.