Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.

Don't think about that. Just believe I'll be okay.

I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic.

I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir, and I remember loving it.

Carbon dioxide is....being portrayed as a pollutant; in fact, it makes things grow, and it is not toxic to humans.

What's happening in Russia of course is you have a country watching out for its national interest.

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one

We are looked upon by God as though we were in eternity; God dwells in eternity, and does not view things as we do.

Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves.

Some people are scared of dying. Never be afraid to die. Because you're born to die.