Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.

Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with.

Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had.

Writing is a supernatural thing.

Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.

In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over.

I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in a cool swimming hole, but when it rains, they scatter.

That's what it means to be an American. To be free to love who and what you want, and to keep a lot in your heart at once.

I wondered if we were put on this earth only to destroy every beautiful thing, to make chaos. Or were we meant to overcome this? Did bad things happen so that goodness could show through in people?

I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed.

It seems like there are so many homesick people in the world. It seems like so many of us live far away from where we were born.

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

Life is so precious. Please, please, let's love one another, live each day, reach out to each other, be kind to each other. Peace be with you. God is great.

The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.

I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it

Dark and Dangerous. And all mine.