The past is fractal premonition, infinite to the eye but nothing to be built on . . .

There was a time when our desire for each other would have landed us in an asylum or prison, had it not been sanctioned by mutual assent. True or false.

Don't spend your life wondering "what if" and worrying over something you have no control. What's done is done. Looking backwards will cause you to miss out on new blessings ahead. Move on.

Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit.

In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend" their observations to fit in with it.

If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

I really like writing in English, and it's the best job I've ever had.

I would like to emphasize again that right prayer leads to right action, that faith without works is dead. An excellent way to put thoughts into action is to write a letter for peace.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.

But what was it Haymitch said when I asked if he had told Peeta the situation? That he had to pretend to be desperately in love? “Don’t have to. He’s already there.

A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.