Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

I let new experiences enliven my being and awaken new, amazing parts of my being. I experience life with joy and receive its bliss.

"So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter."

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.

I've always used songwriting as a way to help me organise reality.

Times have changed. The athletes have changed.

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.

Zombies are then a symbol of our own mad urges to destroy ourselves, and a terrifying portent that we might succeed.

So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.