One plus one equals both.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.

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At a certain point, unabashed optimism becomes delusional insanity.

There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again.

Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full.

America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.

Baby I'm a fool who thinks it's cool to fall in love

We have no right to come before God at all, apart from the finished work of Christ.