He danced with the sky instead, and the sky dropped him like a rotten plum.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.

Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.

Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?

And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.

And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.

Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.

My tiny scary friend is coming

If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.

We are products of their wisdom or lack of wisdom.

It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.

The stars were extra bright tonight, and they shone and glimmered as if each one had something it wanted to say.

What are you doing right now that requires faith?

There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.

When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

A good soldier never leaves a man behind.