Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.

A shoe that fits one person pinches another.

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.

You mature as far as your understanding of what it's going to take, and you increase your stamina. You don't let frustration overtake you when you're looking for change.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.