What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely subservient to the pleasure of showing one's brilliance.

When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

It’s true that no one ever said life would be easy, but it is also true that no one ever said you had to go through it alone.

All is flux, nothing stays still

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

I looked at God and He looked at me, and we were one forever.

When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.

You have to want to dare being a model. You have to dare or you don't go that step further. You have to be willing to stretch - and to not only be willing to stretch, but to want to stretch.

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.

Donald Trump doesn't pose a single threat to the greatness of America.

If I love a song I hope to find a way to get other people to love it too.