This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

We do not need to have a president who insults Mexicans and Latinos and Muslims and women and veterans and African-Americans, we need a president who brings us together, not divides us up.

Learn from the past and share your experiences with others.

No one is bigger than the team. If you can't do things our way, you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are

I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.

The bonds of love are what connect us to the other side.

When the World Gets in my Face I say, Have a Nice Day.

The process of doing a play is an organic one and the process of doing a film is totally un-organic.

When societies are out of harmony, problems develop within the society - collective problems. Their purpose is to push the whole society toward harmony.