It’s better, really, to go out in a blaze. That’s why we love Marilyn, and James Dean. We love the ones who walk right into the fire.

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

He needs a looser association. He needs something that implies a man who wants the ice shard to remain in his chest, who's learned to love the sensation of being pierced.

A celestial light appeared to Barrett Meeks in the sky over Central Park, four days after Barrett had been mauled, once again, by love.

It’s the country that would have him, since he lacked the necessary papers for more promising places.

When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the world on their own!

Sadly, there are many forces more powerful and devestating than love... Among them for example, the anger and jealousy of a spurned husband or lover. Fire begets passions, but it also burns.

The definition of a relationship is like a shower. You go in when it is cold, and come out when it is too hot.

Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.

The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe.

The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the wisdom of crowds.

Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in proportion as it is He Himself who works it in us.

Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex.

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean there's anything wrong.