Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design.

I do watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' with my children at Christmas, and I liked it long before it went into the public domain and became a cliche.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

One thing I've never been accused of is slowly coming into something. I always go full on (and ask) "Now how do we make this work?"

Summertime And the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

I think I love you, Cal." -Abra I'm not good." -Cal Because you're not good." -Abra

I have to get way more vocal and become a little bit less mysterious.

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.