Your path lies across the stars.

I have yet to meet a man who has seen my true stars.

I get all tangled up in your ribbons.

I loved him, but I also realized how calm my life was without him.

What are you going to do?,' he asked me. Me? Nothing. Something has just been broken inside me; you yourself will never be able to repair it.

I'm never sick when you are well.

The two of us could form a new kind of union; we could be free together.

I love you because you're a child and you're scared.' You're going to hurt me in the end. You're quite mad.

Nothing belongs more fully to an artist than his creation - even if you give him your youth, your money, your love, your courage, nothing belongs to you.

The greatest sin you could commit is immortality, because it means that you’ll eventually commit all else.

Dior really was a savior. He almost single-handedly revived women's interest in clothes.

It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.

Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.

[Barack Obama] will touch you on the shoulder and, you know - in that big brother or father figure kind of way. And you really do feel sort of shepherded by him.

I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.

Yet if we are to live fully, we must love as though we've never been hurt, dream as though our hopes have never been dashed, and take steps toward the future as though life has never given us pain.