There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

Collaboration is key, it takes innovation and creativity to the next room.

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined.

Well, you've got to take the bitter with the better.

I'd like to grow old with my face moving.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

I hope I've been a good example to the youth of the church.

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed

I'm the last person that wants to give away music for free.

If you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them.