Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another.

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

..the best strategy for giving is a two-fold approach: a basic plan combined with a willingness to consider spontaneous giving when unique opportunities arise.

An apple never bares a pear.

Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.

I am so grateful to be a writer. I hope every child grows up and finds something to do that will seem important and that will seem precious. Happy living and, especially, happy playing.

I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations.

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.

You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

I realised that conforming didn't accomplish anything. Do your own thing. As long as you learn that, you're cool.

You know who does have a funny bone in her body? Your mom every night for a dollar.