Time seems so inconceivably vast, until it crushes, pressing you paper-thin between one broken-heartbeat passed, and the laughter yet to come.

Social hierarchy doesn’t hold a candle to the power of feeling isolated in your own skin.

Reason has always been obliterated by the sensation of profound solitude, perhaps that is why we replace the aching of isolation with the anguish of abuse.

No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.

I prefer the school of life.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

I see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives.

About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen.

We live in a society today where these children can be wanted children. Even if you don't want to keep this child after you've had it, there's plenty of young couples out there, that want children.

To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections.

Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.