Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

You’re the best bad decision I ever made, and you are, by far, my favorite story to tell.

Respect. Have it not only for others, but also for yourself.

I really don't have any idea about photography, but I take pictures.

Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one?

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

I tweet too much. I can't even pretend it's because I'm talking to fans.

Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.

Through adversity we find our heroes.

What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny.