So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?' Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

When I do my vocal warm-ups everyone calls me the dolphin because I do stupid siren noises.

My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.

The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.

Those who play with fire should expect to be consumed by it.

Trying to execute that kind of intricate staging in the West Wing at the same time you're doing intricate dialogue - it's like patting your head and rubbing your stomach!

A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.