It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.

The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words.

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time. -Day

Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.

Clouds suit my mood just fine.

Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.

Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don’t last forever, you know. But I’ll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.

All it takes is one generation to brainwash a population and convince them that reality doesn't exist

My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.

Brave thoughts, but am I ready to follow through on them?

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

He will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do..

Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.

A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.

All art is someone trying to tell you something.

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.

The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.

My rule is to save myself first.

Bob says hello," He told the stars. The Argo II sailed into the night.

Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.