When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

I have to go, " I say, helpless.What makes you say the opposite of what every cell in your body wants you to say?

it's okay to be addicted to beauty, " Mom says, all dreamy. "Emerson said 'beauty is God's handwriting.

Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.

The worst thing that could ever happen to Noah has happened. He's become normal.

SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air

And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown. Like Cezanne painted them. Impressionist eyes.

Nor that he's regarding my face with the same intensity I am his. We're two paintings staring at each other across a room.

I am perfectly qualified to give you an injection. You're not going to tell me you're afraid of a little prick?""I wouldn't call you that...

God gave you the art to talk and you will just ignore it like these?

When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.

There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

You buy a movie, you should get it anywhere you want it. You pay for a network, you should have that anywhere you want. Same thing with a magazine.

You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.

I believe in nature instead of God.

You know harmony only exists in music-isn't that amazing? I think that if you see earth from very far away, the color is blue. That is very interesting because blue is the color of communication.