It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.

Geoengineering means changing the Earth's fundamental large-scale processes.

Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone.

To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him.

What's better these days, television or film? It's a dead heat. In fact, one could argue for television with more regularity.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.

All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.

Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.