When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.

Pain is life. Life is pain.

Old age is a powerful disguise.

Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.

Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.

I believe that the measure of my soul is my capacity to love imperfect people.

It’s well known that he who returns never left

Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in jail.

I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.

All our words and actions pass in review before God.

After about 25 medals, you run out of shoulder to put them on.

Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

Being sick feels like you're wearing someone else's glasses.