There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

POWER WITHOUT WISDOM IS WASTED ENERGY

I have always been a firm believer in working hard for what is right and for making your own breaks if you want things to change.

I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with some versions of the latter.

To change societies you need to organize with others who share your views.

"Women," he said in disgust. I wasn't sure whether we was referring to me or nuns.

I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.

Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.

Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.

Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?

I've decided. I'm going to become a Shinigami. Become a Shinigami and change things. So that they'll end... without Rangiku having to cry.