He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

The part of you that's like God is the part that makes a choice. That says, I choose to. Or, I choose not to. That's what's sacred.

Sometimes even a "Yes" can be fatal for our Souls

Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt....but do read...

There are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.

But this is africa, so hardly anything is normal.

When we give, we receive much more than what we have given.

There's no place to go. There's nothing to attain. There's nothing to be reached. Love itself is all that you want.

Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are.

The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.

I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.