Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.

Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

Love is a powerful painkiller.

Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.

The market is the only critic that matters.

The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.

Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

What is your name?” I asked.“Thorn.”“Thorn?”“If you touch me, you bleed.

I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

The mind is the effect, not the cause.

When our attention is on the present, our life is constantly renewed.

I don't really like to know what I'm going to do before I do it.

No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

Being safe is about being seen and heard and allowed to be who you are and to speak your truth.