Survival feels like cowardice.

More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

. . . and I don’t expect him to suborn his life into mine any more than I would change my dreams for him. We’re not one soul, one being, however much we love each other.

For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom.

He is not the same person as when wemet, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.

What you said about the sweetest pain? That fits us.

For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much aspersonal choice.

This guilt is a joke, and it’s exhausting to watch you martyr yourself.

Those who trade with heaven by prayer grow rich by quick returns.

The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.

By the same means we do not always arrive at the same ends.

It's lonely at the top - if you don't like that, then you don't start a company.

Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.

My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people.

The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.

No matter what you achieve in life, you're always wondering, 'Is there something I should be doing? Is there something I'm missing?

My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on its back, so too does every living creature have its own perfection built into it.