People can't really sympathize with you properly when you've woken them up

I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.

I felt so alone on that train... a weird, unnatural kind of alone that bore into me. It was feeling just beyond fear and somewhere to the left of sadness.

It just seemed like telling the truth would mean admitting some weakness

I know no one is perfect, that behind every facade of perfection is a writhing mess of subterfuge and secret sorrows... but even taking that into account, Noah was pretty much perfect.

Great mysteries inhabit the threshold of my being.

At the wondrous moment you were born, as you took your first breath, a great celebration was held in the heavens and twelve magnificent gifts were granted to you.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

If people don't get as engaged as the tea party was, we're going to lose.

The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.

I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.

Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.