It’s incredible how small the English language gets when you’re trying to make it fix something.

Even when everything hurts, even when other cities are exploding and people we love are disappearing, there’s still space for sweet things.

I want to know if we are the same, in the moments when we’re stripped bare.

We have to give up so many things when the people we love die. So we hang on to other familiar things.

I can’t quite figure out the difference between loving someone and loving things about them.

Love is insanity, apparently.

Love is something you have or don’t have. Love is like a fever.

It sounds like love just sort of happens, whether you want it to or not, whether you’re married or not.

Sometimes words I think are small come out big.

On our own, we’d look totally normal. Together, we’re something else. Together, we’re special.

We don’t smile, but we something. We something. It hurts, the way a deep connection to someone who isn’t yours sometimes does.

Everyone calls him BlockheadNo one sings his praisesOr takes him to heart...That is the kind of personI want to be

....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Studios just sometimes make decisions on their own that you're always flabbergasted by. It just happens that way for whatever reason - not even pointing fingers, it just is.

Although I voted against the initial resolution approving the war in Iraq, I have consistently voted to support our troops with much-needed armor and supplies.

Embrace yourself, create a plan of action and of course, ponder the impact of your thoughts.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

I like James Franco. I think he's really cute. I remember a while ago there was a rumor going around that he was getting married and all my friends and I were freaking out. Yeah, I think he's cute!

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.