What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is the lack of regard toward animals. Maybe because they're thought to be soulless.

Friendship is a form of love. In fact, you don't know how it starts or why. It is subject to the caprices of time. It can grow or die without a reason. It can last a lifetime.

Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them.

I dream of continuing to dream.

The waves have the habit of going forward and then flowing back.

The future is created through memory.

One writes what one lives, even if not in a literal way. Someone who has gone through an unhappy love tends to describe unhappy loves, even if they have nothing to do with their own.

A winter without snow seems depressing, lacking.

Falling in love with a story is like falling in love with a person. It tends to occupy your life, your thoughts. You can't do anything else for a long time.

I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.

To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself.

Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.

Think people really want to know what's out there?""Probably not. People don't know what they want, Evelyn, or life wouldn't suck

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

You have to live the mission... love what you do.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

Your accord and harmonious love is a hymn to Jesus Christ...in perfect harmony, and taking your pitch from God, you may sing in unison and in one voice to the Father through Jesus Christ.

It's funny when you can actually relate to the fans on a human level and it happens all the time. People assume that's impossible. So when that happens it's a cool thing.

I have fans all around the world.

You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.