If you think you can stand looking and not touching for eight months, you're welcome to try.""Try' being the operative word, " he said, sighing. "No, I can't. And I don't want to try.

Every time I opened my mouth, flame licked up my throat. I could have razed vil­lages, kid­napped princesses.

We looked at each other with that resentment you feel when you want something so much it’s causing you pain, so much you start to hate it a little.

Some girls had mothers who never called them beautiful but swore their love up and down. It's all the same, really. All bullshit.

Jesus didn’t die to forgive me of my sin but leave me in it. He died to forgive and to free me from the power of sin.

When I returned in the next stage of life, I wish to return as Lailah Gifty Akita.

Happiness is an inner perception, not an outer realistic conception.

Hang on, did you just call me Angel?" "If I did?

He who hesitates is lost

You can't live in the digital and die in the analog.

Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.

Persistence only proves persistence-it does not prove love. The fact that a romantic pursuer is relentless doesn't mean you are special-it means he is troubled.

I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race.

Canada's most important -- that is to say consequential -- modern voice.