Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.

Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with.

Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had.

Writing is a supernatural thing.

In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over.

Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.

I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in a cool swimming hole, but when it rains, they scatter.

That's what it means to be an American. To be free to love who and what you want, and to keep a lot in your heart at once.

I wondered if we were put on this earth only to destroy every beautiful thing, to make chaos. Or were we meant to overcome this? Did bad things happen so that goodness could show through in people?

I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed.

It seems like there are so many homesick people in the world. It seems like so many of us live far away from where we were born.

Once upon a time, is how stories begin...

… we don't need more command and control

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.

His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.

There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.

We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?

Lipitor is one of the most researched medicines. I'm glad I take Lipitor, as a doctor, and a dad.

Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?' 'Never. They're mother's milk to me.