Please don't ask me to remember things that are going on around me... I have a dozen other lives I do that for every day in my head.

Who can have compassion on the ignorant is a victim of regrets, a supporter of ignorance and a builder of stupidity.

However much I doubted the man's ability to accomplish the task he had set himself, I could not help admiring his faith and his industry.

I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest.

The reward of suffering is experience

It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric poems.

Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

Can you dance?" she asked before she could stop herself. "I can," he said, affronted. "I'm really good with the slow songs.

And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.

My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.