We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust.That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.

Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.

Truces may stop the battles, but part of you will always feel like you're at war.

It's hard to think of such things when you are busy dreaming or loving or screwing. The context falls away.

I'm sorry, " he says. "I don't usually like people. So when I do, part of me is really amused and the other part refuses to believe it's happening.

As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter. You up? he asks.And the reply comes instantly:For anything.

What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread

Dreaming and loving and screwing. None of these are identities. Maybe when other people look at us, but not to ourselves. We are so much more complicated than that.

So what’s your story?” Ryan asks.Avery looks up at him, hand still in the water. “My story?”“Yeah. Everybody has at least one.

This is the power of a kiss: It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Creativity needs encouragement as food, and conflict to spark it.

I mean, you know how it is. You chase a bottle of sleeping pills with a bottle of Jack Daniel's and life's never the same, no matter how many times you try to tell people it was just an accident.

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

Hollywood is a land of self-invention.

...opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the press in a democracy - a newspaper, kiddo, is about Style.

A lot of the people who keep a gun at home for safety are the same ones who refuse to wear a seat belt

The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war.

A lot of my past is gone from my mind.

I met this gangster who pulls up people's pants. Name's Wedgie Kray.