That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

You solve a problem not by eliminating the problem but by changing the perception and awareness of the problem.

There are more men than women in mental hospitals - which just goes to show who's driving who crazy.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.

We do a lot of talking with our mouths, but we don't necessarily realize the signals we give out physically with our body posture when we're talking to people.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

By the time they got to Denholm Street, day had been beaten back and the night was soaking through the city.

Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.

You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline.