Show me what you've written, " I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.

I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer out of him.

I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer.

I read nonfiction for information, fiction for truth.

If someone comes to you with, 'It's my kid's graduation, ' you don't tell them, 'Sorry, you can't go to that.' You just don't do that. You figure out some other way.

I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean.

I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.

To choose the light or to choose other things is always the question.

Do everything as if He were dwelling in us. Thus we shall be His temples and He will be within us as our God - as He actually is.

I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.

America and Canada are the best friends. We've always been the best friends.

We need to learn to get along with each other and learn how to help one another.