I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

A man cannot understand hunger, until he has swum in the depths of hunger

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

Anyone who knows me, knows that I am not afraid of anything.

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment could cost me my life.

It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.

Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort level and perception.

The most important responsibility we have on this planet is to take care of one another.

I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?"

A broken spoon may be a fork in disguise.