What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

I wonder if he’d been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that.

There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.

When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

Instead of going to the gym, I dress in black - a lot more practical and much more fun.

Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.

Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.

I have an AIDS ribbon tattooed on my arm.

Writing is very different to having your photo taken. You are exposing yourself more, not physically but emotionally.