She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we could not see it. Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds.

The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.

Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.

People always talk like there's a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn't, at least not for me. I remember what I've imagined and imagine what I remember.

I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.

Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too.

We are living the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.

I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me.

Photographs are just light and time" - Aza Holmes

You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Thus, hanging around in our towels (and those weird disposable underpants) was no big deal.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

Excellent conquerors do not engage.

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.

You know what FSU stands for, don't you? Free Shoes University.

It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.

Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with our faithless morality of payback and reward.