Playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. Noone can be any one thing all the time.

Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.

When it’s quiet in my head like this, that’s when the voice doesn’t need to tell me how pathetic I am. I know it in the deepest part of me. When it’s quiet like this, that’s when I truly hate myself.

You treat me better than I've ever treated myself.

Writing to her, I was no longer lonely... I could tolerate anything as long as I had a notepad and a pen and could pour my heart out to her in these letters.

The more the words of others impressed him with their factual content, the more he felt he must wait for his own facts before being tempted into words.

Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense.

I know many fine feathered friends But their friendliness depends on how you do They know many sure fired ways, To find out the one who pays And how you do

I read Holes in 10th grade, and I havent read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK, but the book was way better.

You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

Casting is so important, with any film you do. You have to get actors that you believe will fulfill the promise of the characters that are on the page.

I think I've always wanted to be different from everybody else. I get really annoyed when I do something and everybody else does it too, or if I'm doing something that everybody else is doing.

life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to find a centre