Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

Love is a powerful painkiller.

Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.

The market is the only critic that matters.

The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.

Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

The best critic needn't be right, just interesting.

Any book is my kind of book that I can read with delight.

On the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he were awakening from a dream.

It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it be so for others.

The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can't move.

When I'm home, I like a cozy, comfortable, calming space.

I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.

It is only as powerful as it is relevant in a given scenario. I think we need to be clear it is not a magic bullet in post-conviction cases.

Rock concerts are the churches of today.

The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.

Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to ... open our hearts once they've closed, to open our souls once they've shied away.