So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead?

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer

He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever.

Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.

Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all.

Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.

You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

It's a brand new day and a brand new life

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

The Earth never ceases to spin. All life is dancing : The trees, the wind, the sea. Keep dancing for the rest of your life.

High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional.

If you can't love me the right way, then don't love me at all. Don't be mad at me because I prefer to be happy.

It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.

Be ahead of all farewells as if they were behind you, like the winter that is just departing.

Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ.

All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.