Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.

I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.

It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections.

The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.

Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.

I see Jenna, smiling, chattering. And failing. When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?

Oh, my goodness, ” said Louisiana. “I’m just all filled up with feathers and regrets. And fears. I have a lot of fears.

An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made out of my past, not the elimination of that mess.

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.

The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.

To die for others is the highest purpose a person may achieve.

Those who feel guilty are afraid; and those who are afraid somehow feel guilty. To the onlooker, too, the fearful seem guilty.

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.

Every beginning is cheerful.

The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all.

Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.