I asked "What do you even do with a chimera?""What wouldn't you do with a chimera?" Jeff asked. "They're like the Swiss Army knife of animals.

If it was appropriate to judge a person based on her footwear - and it obviously was - I decided I liked her immediately.

Sometimes it's the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.

Mother Earth taught me that my angertoward nature was unfounded.And she therefore invited me to open my heart to thispossibility: so too may be my anger toward man.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

No one's ever gotten better by practicing less.