It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.

I'm falling in love. I am in love. and it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that, as sure as I am of the fact what I feel for Ky is something different.

That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)

Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back

He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel.

Do not go gentle. So I fight. I fight the only way I know how.

Nothing is really lost as long as you remember it

One of the best lovers in Hollywood. What would a title like that encompass exactly? she wondered. Technique? Enthusiasm? Or was it more about equipment?

Safety" and "fairness" are the preoccupation of the wounded. "Being" and "joy" are the unconscious realities of the free and living.

Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

I don't think there's anything to be desired in a bunch of people chasing you around, trying to get a piece of your clothing.

I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi)

I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.