There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.

My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball's grandfather.

I don't feel comfortable voting for Hillary Clinton.

We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.

To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead

Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.

One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.

The truer the facts the better the fiction.