Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

Damn, her mouth was a weapon.

Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.

And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

I never watched a frame of the film until it was finished.

Hate is only conquered by love.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

If I had to choose a song to listen to before I died, it would be Simone singing Começar de novo.