Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

And I'm not assuming and I'm not judging. I'm just being curious.

A boy and a girl, fated to rule all. Two will rise, and One will fall.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.

Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.

The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

We used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by panic and announce that she had nothing to wear.

I like to go to places where you can relax a little after youre done working.

I scribbled four words down in my notebook: 'The world is flat.

When you encounter that first love, a young love, you do feel that your story is original. You are utterly convinced that your story has never been told before, because it hasn't.