She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be.

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

Always do what you're afraid to do. ... I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.

Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

It is the story that matters, not just the ending.

The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.

The past is dead, let's focus on tomorrow instead.

Just because you’re grown up and then some doesn’t mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)

Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.

The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

I am not an originator but a transmitter.

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

‎The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.