When I wear her clothes, I just feel safer, like she's whispering in my ear.

She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off of clocks, of cold stones, of shoes filled with nothing but wind.

The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?

Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?

How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?

Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.

I can't shove the dark out of my way.

Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it.

That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.

The coolest guys aren't afraid to be feminists.

Gods were preserved but languages were exterminated: thus was the conqueror’s will

If you stand back far enough, anything and everything is nothing.

A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up.

Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.

I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace... and I think that'll probably do.

Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.

The finishing stroke of all sorrow.

I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it.

He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. This is wrong, he thought. Letting food rot while people die of hunger. It's evil.

It's fine to wait for an appropriate time, but it's inappropriate to wait forever.