Sometimes I felt so alone that I wish there were a bigger, longer word for alone. I tried to tell Grandma about this feeling, about my suspicion that life was nicking away pieces of me.

Within and within. Dreaming. How we gentle our losses into paler ghosts.

You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?

I have found that she is as kind and caring a person as she is hilarious. Simply put, Amy Poehler is my hero.

If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold.

Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil.

A world ought to have a few genuine good guys, and not just a spectrum of people running from bad to worse.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.