Yes, Jenna, I love you with all my heart. And with my atoms and molecules and electrons and whatever further breakdown you require.

We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. But we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love lighting our way.

Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends.

Do you love me?" he asked. I fell silent. "For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.

He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others.

I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.

I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

He leaned upon her as if there was no other support anywhere in the world, and she held him as if she would undertake no other task for all eternity.

If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.

I must not imagine what is ‘not’ as a means of escaping what ‘is’. Rather, I must understand what ‘is’ and imagine how I can make it what it is ‘not’.

People enjoy convincing others, if others are wrong they convince them towards right, if others are already right they still want to convince them towards wrong.

Both [social science & science fiction] attempt to understand empirical facts and lived experience as something that is shaped by abstract - and not directly perceptible - structural forces.

A poor attitude does not do the body any favours. Smile and the world will smile back at you.

Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.

We pass through hundreds, thousands, perhaps millions of existences. In each lifetime, we're exploring another part of our own self, which is eternity.

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

If one is of the masculine gender, a poodle is the insignia of one's deviation.

What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.

Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players.