The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of thinking.

When you are searching for love, love is standing just outside the door. Just open the door and welcome the love.

The worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of these supply chains in international capitalism, unless it is the nation state.

Shared interests are great, but not essential. Shared emotional states are what you're after.

Sisterhood is a funny thing. It's easy to recognize, but hard to define.

I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right or true.

Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations.

Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.