My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.

Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.

I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.

There are two sacred causes in this world, ” he said, holding up his pinkie and ring ringer. “Chance and necessity. By chance I was there to help when you had need.

...emotions fly humans toward art

Let the one who seeks justice be just.

I scrupulously hide every legitimate reason for people to hate me, and it turns out they don’t need legitimate reasons. Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.

Someone should love you. I will bite him if he will not.

Sir James waved a gnarled hand. "They're nothing but feral file clerks, dragons. They used to alphabetize the coins in their hoards.

I didn't want this dance to end, or Kiggs to let go of my hand. I didn't want him to turn his eyes away, or live any other moment than this one.

The divinity you seek is born with you.

America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.

[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.

To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification.

If that happens again someone's gonna get shot.... with an arrow of love!

Intuition comes from within. It's what you know when you're quiet and still.

I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.

I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.

You can hear the Celtic heartbeat all over Europe and America, from Bing Crosby to Jack White, from the Smiths to My Bloody Valentine, from House of Pain to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.

One drop of that ocean is Hope, and the rest is fear.