It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.

Maybe my mother's right. Maybe there is more to Bryce Loski than I know. Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light.

What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.

...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.

It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.

Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker

Impatience kills quickly.

As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.

For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people I've been close to.

Sometimes I see movies and I get almost angry - because I'm like, I can never make that movie. It stems from a jealousy, but from a good kind of jealousy. It's inspirational.

My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice of our dominating left mind.

You deliver a message every time you speak. Do you deliver the truth, or do you deliver lies? When the message you deliver comes from truth and love, you are happier.

It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.

The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings.

Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.

It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice.