Most volcanologists die in bed.

It's very nice to feel. You're nothing. You're just nothing when you're near a volcano.

I have seen so many eruptions in the last 20 years that I don't care if I die tomorrow.

Never wait until the end of your life to realize you have not live to fully love.

Jesus’ command to love our neighbours is a command to love all strangers precisely because we too have been strangers to God and welcomed in.

[Alice Cullen] disappears for a little bit to go gather some people to help the cause, but when she comes back she is definitely very present and, yeah, I had a lot of fun doing that.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

I’m in love with everyone I’ve ever met in one way or another. I’m just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human being.

Suffering and evil will not have the last word.

Life can only be understood backwards.

The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.

No matter what you achieve in life, you're always wondering, 'Is there something I should be doing? Is there something I'm missing?

The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.