Pain should not be wasted.

Imagine a world, in which your entire possession is one raspberry, and you give it to your friend.

Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.

The greatest obstacle to your progress and growth is often your unwillingness to pay the necessary price through sacrifice.

The mere fact that Lottie had come and gone away again made things seem a little worse-just as perhaps prisoners feel a little more desolate after visitors come and go, leaving them behind.

I love the optimism on the shores of youth, where time hasn't yet eroded faith.

The world helps you to keep evolving and hope it's for better. You have to rise above all the tragedies in life. You have to grow, and if you stop growing, you are old.

I wouldn’t trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven.

You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime.

Voting is the foundation stone for political action.

I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.

If you don't invest in the characters, you don't care if they get killed. It's more fun if you know them.