Sometimes the best way out of darkness is into it.

I found that reading gave me a certain relief – one form of escapism that seemed safe, and maybe more than safe. I felt saner – less fragmented- after reading for an hour.location 3234

To create a word is simple. But to create a world – to think – that’s hard.

People become so obsessed with the future, they make it up.

Language also acts like love in form.

In truth, it was also by design: as much as I loved my mother, she wasn't often the person I sought for comfort in hard times. She disapproved tacitly of crying.

But maybe because I'm from a part of the country where there are more meth labs than drive-throughs, anything harder than cough syrup always makes me nervous.

In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.

p.s.: I know you're rolling your eyes right now, but I don't care. Honestly, it's always kind of been a turn on.

Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution.

Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.

Nothing is irreversible except dying.

You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

I wonder how well she sleeps at night, and what kind of dreams she has. I wish I could step into them like she steps into mine.

The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.

Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.