Sometimes it's better to live without a mother than not to live at all.

You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.

Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.

I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her.

I didn't understand right away what she meant. But her words soaked through my skull like warm oil, behind my eyes, down my spine and into the empty space inside me.

You don't tell anyone things like that about your friends, even when you're mad at them.

Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.

... I'll tell her about Tia. I'll tell her how beautiful she was and how brave. And I'll tell her the most important thing of all: that her mother loved her better than her life.

Then I kissed Max because I loved him, and everyone I had ever loved before had gone away and I had never kissed them goodbye.

I didn't know what to say when someone's given you a small free kiss in the dark ...

Through the night we drove in a tangle of waking and sleeping, nightmares from hell and holy white dreams.

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

Men are so isolated, prisoners of their own wretched selves, that they can be unbelievably sociable.

George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time.

True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.

You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down

We don't want to merely obey God: we need to catch His heart. It is then we will glimpse the wisdom behind His directives, and not just see them as laws.

A developed country is one that allows all its citizens to enjoy a free and healthy life in a safe environment

I did see the Soul Train picture. That was interesting. I've heard all the jokes. I had it coming.

My boots use recycled electronics and recycled plastics from the ocean.