Red was ruby, green was fluorescent, yellow was simply incandescent. Color was life. Color was everything.Color, you see, was the universal sign of magic.

Mother often said that she could never be bothered to understand why Alice did the things she did, and now, more than ever, Alice thought never being bothered was a very lazy way to love someone.

Best to introduce yourself to patience now, so that it might find you when you call upon it later.

Studies have shown that thinking and wondering lead to thoughtful decision-making. It's an epidemic.

She'd decided long ago that life was a long journey. She would be strong and she would be weak, and both would be okay.

Alice would choose to love herself, different and extraordinary, every day of the week.

You should feel so driven to help the world that it would weigh you down if a single person received anything but the best.

Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.

There are no such words like "over-dreaming" or dreaming without "biometric verification". You can dream over and over again! You don't need a certificate to dream big!

Well, I can throw a mean comeback, so there's that. I will crush them on wit.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Me as a person, I'm not the president of the NBPA (National Basketball Players Association). I don't even know what to say. I'm not like this perfect, buttoned-up, suit-and-tie guy.

Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

I can tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the American people think. There's going to be an awful lot more body bags.

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.