There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.

If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.

I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine.

It's a sad thing to watch your best friend turn into somebody you don't know anymore. Or even want to know.

I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.

Nothing says hell has to be fire.

If love drove people mad, what would lack of love do?

The thing is, all memory is fiction.

The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.

Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left them hurting.

Don't look at the poster on your wall and think 'I could never do that.' Look at the poster on your wall and think 'I'm gonna do that!'

I went to my Congressman and he said quote quote, I'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote.

I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.

Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again. Thank him for yourself and then for all the rest of his glorious handiwork.

The sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya.