We all have our safe places, where none are invited. They are lonely rooms full of the musk of memory. Sanctuary rather than adventure.

There is a light within our soul that burns brighter than the sun. And we ignore it.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Most of my beholders are blind.

I want to douse myself in silver words and whisper away all rue.

After a breath and before another, there's plenty of time to rest.

LOOK AT MY BLOOD FLOWERS, BECAUSE I WRITE WITH A SERENE SHARP BLADE THAT SOOTHES. AS MUCH AS CUTS INTO THE DEEPEST PARTS OF MY SOUL.

Thoughts as warm as a silky summer rain, flowing over the edge of my soul's gentle.not tides returning them along the shoreline to laughing gulls.

Even dead fallen leaves go a long way with the wind before getting crushed.

All these mirrorscarnival distortionsof selves we never were.

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

FATE decides who you meet in your life, your HEART chooses who you want in your life, but your CHOICES decide who will stay

Whatever you cannot commonize, you cannot conquer, commonize it to conquer it.

Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird.

I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.

I grew up with four brothers, and in the back of my head I feel pretty masculine. It's always funny when I hear recordings of my voice, because it's so deep when I hear it in my head.

I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.

I have a completely new knee. It's brilliant. I am not feeling my age at all. I feel about 43, a willowy blonde 43 years old with long legs.

The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them . It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's a list of things they aren't allowed even to consider.

The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions.