My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

I'm looking for somekind of permanence, so my mark will linger on the world once I'm gone, in the places where I found joy.." -Page 81

You can ache for where you come from, and it's homesickness. A relationship, and it's heartbreak. But is there a word for missing your friends like that?

I'm looking for some kind of permanence, so my mark will linger on the world once I'm gone, in the places where I found joy..

To the deepest, most cellular level of my being, I resent people who believe that depression is the same as weakness, that "sad" people must be coddled like helpless toddlers.

I know this feeling of being a ghost in your own life - no one sees you, no one feels you, so you stay still as if you could actually disappear at any moment.

So far away, but so beautiful. So powerful. I can always feel it tugging at me.

God helps those who strut their stuff.

It was common knowledge that big, bad city boys spent the bulk of their time sleeping around, coiffing their hair and posting pictures of food on the internet.

The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it.

My approach has always been rather sensual.

I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool - insecurity.

The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images.

Kids are constantly evolving, learning, and growing. They aren’t who they were yesterday.

Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back? That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act?

The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.

Because the filming process was so organic and there was no script, the film [Dream of Life] was literally telling us what it wanted to be in the editing room.