You are never too old to have an active imagination.

It was a glorious illusion and she fell asleep before it ended.

We have overcome heartaches by being kind to others and by supporting each other.

I think magic is hard for most people to believe in, because our lives are typically without it. Sometimes the supernatural is disguised behind other things like bravery.

... but in the winter they were ensconced in a white powder of sparkling snow.

In the winter, the snow had become glittery fairy dust that had given all the creatures of the meadow warm clothes and a fire to help them endure the winter.

Elle wondered if heart could smile, because she felt that her joy reached her inner being.

She didn't use any artificial light, but let the glow from the silver moon in the north and the periwinkle moon in the south to guide her.

The air had a cool crispness to it and the leaves on the trees had begun turning yellow and red.

Age is glory.

Of a sudden he felt that fraternity life was the only way to exist at college. How could he have doubted? (126)

Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.

I feel that's the richest gift that's ever been given to me: I get to do what I love. And it's a really brutal business, and no matter how successful you are you hear "No" more than "Yes."

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

I'd be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I'd run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap my neck back.

We are determined to listen to nothing from the illegal congress.

We are not at war (except with our own demons).

Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.