When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.

And it's exactly what's wrong with the radio. It's like...anything that tries to appeal to everybody always ends up sounding so cheap.

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.

Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it's as simple as loving the way some other person looks when they're sleeping.

The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.

Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well.

Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when really bad things were just about to happen.

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

To get lost, all you need is poetry.

Everyone had a dirty, little secret that is never spoken out loud to anyone. Which is another way of saying people are never what they seem.

God tells us to make a sanctuary of our thoughts in which He can dwell.

You make your own luck. Some people have bad luck all their lives.

It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.

Clowns work as well as aspirin, but twice as fast.

Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.

I'm not annoying in relationships! I'm great!

Fate and free will are equally powerful forces but I consider free will to be more important as it is your free will that determines your fate.