It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

To feel alone is to be alone.

I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

With writing, we have second chances.

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

Before comparing yourself or your life to others, take a good look at your fingers.

To me, it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.

I thought you might need a ride.' 'The headmaster's office called me a car.' He shrugged, indifferent but amused. 'And here I am in a submarine.

[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.

Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.

Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or she rejects clear evidence pointing to God.

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies.

I just want to play for the people, give my new sound to them, and encourage them and be encouraged by people.

It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.