One of the embarrassing facts from social psychology is that most stereotypes are true, in the only sense that stereotypes are ever true: on average.

Each and every one of us holds the amazing power to modify our life at any time we decide to do so.

To me, cases like that really scream out, 'Hey, it's not out there. It's in here.' There's no indication that this mother is prone to raise very feminine boys because his twin is not that way.

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

That said the conspirators:Tell us your secret and we will have betrayed you for a lifetime.

When there is no tension between the inner beingness and that which is being expressed, there is grace.

I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding.

Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

When you have your passion, you never even think about other things. It's tunnel vision. You go until you get it.

His eyes, I’d long since discovered, could be as eloquent and expressive as his pen. The messages they sent me now hardly seemed decent for a public setting.

We only see starlight because all the stars are bleeding.