Writing is a supernatural thing.

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.

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.

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

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.

I love my loneliness as you do love your virginity.

If your screen is wrong, your correctives are wrong

For me Christ was not to be bought for thirty pieces of silver but with my heart's blood. We buy not cheap in this market.

The girls just like to be in the shoes. They like to scuff up the floors and walk around in high-heeled shoes that are too big for them, all over the house.

As the children get older and know what they want ... We all grew up at one point.

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

Usually when I ask people to reach into my velvety pouch it means something different.

He can run anytime he wants. I'm giving him the red light.