Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

God is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. He is intricately involved in our lives and for that alone, we should be thankful.

If you can’t love yourself, how can you love others? If you can’t forgive yourself, how can you forgive others?

But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.

...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

The only time I ever appeared in the Enquirer was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I’m not much of a wild child.

Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.

The power of purity-it is a definite power.