[We] need people who are kind by instinct, not by effort. But that is what we lack in this time. For progress, we have eaten our souls up, and nothing matters anymore.

Forgive me, " I wrote at the bottom. "I did not think I would break.

There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost.

Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence's sake?

Time, it transpires, is not so good at telling after all.

To regret your soul is to regret your past.

For a second, my hand touched yours, but that second is gone, and cannot be seen, heard or felt ever again. This second is gone, too, the moment in which I spoke by your side. It is dead. Let it die.

There is a nearly unerring, unconscious radar that zeros in on relationships that repeat our childhood experiences.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.

Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.

God is not a person. God does not have a history. God does not have a future. God is beyond definition. We can say that your perception of this world is God.

I have a lot of nightmares.

There are so many forms, I believe people are bright enough to make their own laws, more subtle ones than we've had before.

If we get through for two minutes only it will be a start!

It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear.

Slasher movies are fun. You watch yourself get chopped to pieces, yet you're still alive. You see the blood on the ax and think, Holy **it, this is sick, but you kind of get over your fear of death.