Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

If happiness were the means to measure the evolutionary level of a species, I bet Darwin would’ve changed his mind and places humans at the very bottom.

It only makes sense to me when I can get in trouble for it. – Maya

The land of success will always be big enough for all, but you must still get yourself to it.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous.

Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country.

I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.