Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

Opportunities don't just happen. You create them

Love someone deeply and unconditionally to find the magical power of love.

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

Fashion changes, Style remains

We've got no hate for each other [in the band Stone Roses], and we never have.

If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.