Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.

I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.

It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.

I would love to saythat youmake meweak in the kneesbutto be quite upfrontand completelytruthfulyoumake my bodyforgetit has kneesat all.

There is more light than darkness, there has always been.

Be gentle, always delicatewith every soulyou meet, for every single morningyou wake up, there is someoneWishing, silentlyand secretly, that theyhad not.

Part those sheetslike holy watersand I will worship you skinlike a born-againbeliever.

If you give me homeI will give you adventure.It's both we can have.

All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand, and the times it is not.

In the space, the pause between this breath and the one that follows, you have made a home inside me.

What if it's the thereand not the herethat I long for?The wanderand not the wait, the magicin the lost feetstumbling downthe faraway streetand the way the moonnever hangsquite the same.

Those who believe in it are the ones who find it

He was gargoyle. Tonight, his mate would learn exactly what that meant.

All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

Very rarely does anyone say that the TV is better than the book.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

Death is dreadfully personal, terribly important to oneself, and so unimportant to the rest of the world.

I think the most important thing is to feel comfortable. If you don't feel comfortable with what you're wearing it really shows.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.