With writing, we have second chances.

To feel alone is to be alone.

I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

It is the sweat of the servants that make their squire look smart.

A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone.

Physical training is mental warfare!

Once you know you are worthy and your story is worthy, you fight for other stories.

I spot a little stranger standing across the room, my brain takes a vacation just to give my heart more room.

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?

people who say its a long story, mean it's a stupid short one that they are too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell

The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult.

And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.