Real fear is like intense pain. It's there to warn you something's truly wrong.

Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.

Hate misleads, fear distorts and love blinds.

To the discovered, the discoverer can be a god.

At the heart of any poor soul not at one with the Force, there is only void.

I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.

Love is harsh, and it consumes. And more than anything, it demands sacrifice.

The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.

Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves.

Nature is a big influence on my work. That's where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.

If you do not fear God, then fear your dreams, because they're how He talks to you.

Unlimited knowledge, limited time.

We love to be hurt and we love to have our unhealing wounds opened and reopened again: we sit staring in the mirror of art, fascinated by our own deformities.

We had an awesome locker room of girls, and I'm honored to have shared a locker room with all those girls.

There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.

A kiss is a rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving.

Freedom will cost you the mask you have on, the mask that feels so comfortable and is so hard to shed off, not because it fits so well but because you have been wearing it so long.

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

Genius is born-not paid

I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.

But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will want to read.