Laughter comes from living." I shrug, try to sound indifferent. "I've never really been alive before.

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

I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.

I hope he doesn't know he just touched my leg.And nothing happened.

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him.

Why are you touchin

I am suspended in the moment. Flickering images faded with age, frozen thoughts hovering precariously in dead space, a whirlwind of memories that slice through my soul.

Sometimes I think the loneliness inside of me is going to explode through my skin and sometimes im not sure if crying or screaming or laughing through the hysteria will solve anything at all

Things are changing, but this time I'm not afraid. This time I know who I am. This time I've made the right choice and fighting for the right team. I feel safe. Confident

Hate looks just like everybody else until it smiles. Until it spins around and lies with lips and teeth carved into the semblance of something too passive to punch.

I'm wearing dead cotton on my limbs and a blush of roses on my face.

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Consider surgeons and their work. It's unthinkable to put your hands in the warm blood of another human's gut. Even with rubber gloves on. Who'd want to do that? But surgeons get over it.

Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.

I have high-tech tastes. If I had $100 million, I would spend it on research equipment rather than a yacht.

Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.