She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Dreaming By Day, Wishing On Stars At Night...

Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.

I am originally from Florida. So Thanksgiving was always something I really looked forward to, because I got to travel back home every year and see everyone all at once, around one big happy table.

You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.

'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

I don't like being shouted at.

It is often said that it's a man's world; we must change this fact and create this: It's a human's world!

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.