She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.

If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...

Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

the star that I was wishingthe light that I was kissingsitting back and reminiscing that night, it was missing.

I have the strength to endure it all.

I feel like everything comes into your life for a reason.

Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.

You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing.

The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.

In America, if you want to make it as a golfer, you go to college on a scholarship. In Australia, you go to the airport with a plane ticket. The competition just isn't there.

Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.

On tour I feel like it's always so go go...you're always just taking in and storing information and feelings and things. So for me I need time off to let all those things come out and settle.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.