And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?

There is nothing perfect...only life.

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists upon certain kinds of content and, inevitably, a certain kind of audience.

Pour on, I will endure.

Blind risk is stupid, but calculated risks are worth taking.

To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.

Looking into blood doping. I think it will allow me to write jokes with greater intensity, and for a longer period of time.

This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.

good call. A second drag and your next stop's the wastepaper basket - and not to toss your kleenex, true.

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil.

I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.