...flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.

Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence.

'Yeezus, ' I really love it. I think the sound of it is cool.

Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.

I'm actually graduating early. I got a lot of work done already. Being home schooled, I have had a lot of tutors help me.

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.