At least, when there’s fear, there’s some human part left in you. Once that’s gone, though, there is nothing.

Beginnings are easy, but after that, happiness takes some work.

We had been younger. Yup, you can grow a lot in the blink of an eye.

And then Luke had appeared, like a gust that had come to teach me that in life, there was nothing more precious than life itself.

Somewhere in between, I had fallen for that boy.

I forced my eyes open and saw the image that’s haunted me every day for the past years of my life. And every day, in my nightmares.

There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom.

Some might say it was lack of love –I would say it was out of love.

The end for us came with a knock on my window.

Maybe if I had gone on like that I could have stopped myself in time. Maybe at that point I still had it in me to come through.

Love, like addiction, removes all choices...

Maybe our greatest enemy isn’t the evil around us, but the evil inside us.

A writer must pay attention his or her surroundings.

But when I am due…Keep local the chest to lay rest my simple skins in,

I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.

Your primary calling is to worship ... to pursue celebration and rejoicing as a way of life.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act.

Well, I find a strange comfort in the fact that he wouldn't feel this degree of animosity now, had he not loved me so much before.

Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.