Never take another human being to the third life, because we don't know how to go.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her. I didn't want to fight her anymore. I wanted to quit. I wanted to go home. So I blew up her planet.

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind, " Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course.

For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

Why would you want to do anything else but rescue a pet?

Well, you know, I just - I believe marriage should between a man and a woman.

Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it!

When you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

Abortion ... interferes with God's plan-a plan He willed before He created the universe.