Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

All hurt is brain hurt.

Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.

People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.

At that moment, the creature's back breached the waves, its body cutting through the water in a sinuous arch, rainbows sparking off the iridescent scales on its back. Rusalye.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to bethought provoking.

In the 21st Century, I'd like to think women have the right to live lives free of both sexual violence and daily harassment, as well as any other form of inequality.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.

Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.

It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.