Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.

Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.

The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice.

I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.

People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.

This is the secret of the golden flower: if the heart can die the flower will bloom, die as you are so you can be reborn.

A lonely impulse of delight

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

To make a man happy fill his hands with work his heart with affection his mind with purpose his memory with useful knowledge his future with hope and his stomach with food.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.

It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.

So preach that those who do not fall out with their sins may fall out with thee.

Say "thank you" when you're grateful and "sorry" when you're wrong.