It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

Love is that which gives of itself, not because anyone needs it or deserves it, but because that is what love does.

The past and fool are the most dangerous weapons that poison our mind and heart

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.

Moby lives the simplest of any person I think I know.

No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.

We don't often have the luxury of time [in Steve Jobs movie ]to have these conversations where you just literally get to sit around for day and days and analyze every line of dialogue.