We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core. Without them, we are empty.

Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.

Standing up for what's right is a huge burden to bear. It's normal to have some doubt.

Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.

As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.

Trains are all the ways you miss each other-wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.

When someone you love has died, there is a certain grace period during which you can get away with murder. Not literal murder, but pretty much anything else.

Do you need anything?" she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? "Nah, I'm good.

Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don't enter anymore.

Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.

Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.

History warns us ... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill they come only when they hurt.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

I started modeling quite young. I would really recommend to every girl not to start modeling until they turn 17, to be honest. Before that, I think you're not mature enough.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.

No. At the States we get no matches that are played in Europe on TV.

A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.

Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon as it is shown to be inconsistent with the facts.