Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.

Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.

Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.

I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.

Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.

There's a hazy smile on her lips that won't go away, and her hair is a mess. It's like a brushfire filled with casualties.

‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

We writers are resilient souls.

Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially, the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

We may not be worthy to be forgiven, but He is worthy to forgive us.

If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!

We're seeing that women continue to make less money, they continue to face violence.

The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.

Those who analogize the federal budget to a family's budget must know nothing about either.

I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

Why must every eleven minutes of my life be filled with misery?

You never know how much time you'll have.