Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

I want to be violated by insight.

We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

God wants you to always have a hunger in your heart to learn something new.

Embrace all people with love.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

You are the mother, the father, the sister, the brother, the teacher and the guide for the soul that has been placed in your trust.

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

Happiness isn't real unless it is shared.

We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.

Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss.

[Hillary Clinton] is part of the establishment, and that's good for foreign policy and for understanding the ongoing health care system.

Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.