There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch.

She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.

Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes.

Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.

Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.

My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go.

A small town has as many eyes as a fly

Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

Put me down, I’m too heavy.”“You’re small enough to fit in my pocket.

Keep your hope in the Lord.

Don't expect others to respect you, if you can't respect your self.

My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.

I could never focus on my upper body as a skater, so I'm enjoying having symmetrical upper and lower body muscle.

When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is no need to judge your-self.

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

Leap, and the net appears.

Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see.

My basic rule is that I want people who don't want a job in government.