There are depths to the human soul that should not be fathomed.

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.

A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

Because I had already resolved that if you're afraid of love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let somebody love you.

When I write I am the real me.

The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.

Are all American girls as daft as you, Rachel?" "I hope so," I said.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)

A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour!

The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

The body should not just be something you see. It's also the inside of it. It's frightening and abstract and much more than pretty or not pretty. The shape of it is boring.

By finding the courage to be ourselves, we gain the power to make a difference.

I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose language you happen to be in or whose century you happen to be in.

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

There is only one death, so let it be in the path of Allah