In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

Much of your strength as a woman can come from the resolve to replenish and fill your own well and essence first, before taking care of others.

I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced, vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open.

She glanced outside at the sky, filled with clouds and smog. All the pollution, all that hell—even the stars didn’t stand a chance.

I think that everybody needs somebody to really look up to and know that even though you're going through a tough time, you'll get over it.

Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.

If one has a purpose, life is bearable enough, do you not think so?

The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.

I'm an old-school guy.

Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.

When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.