This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.

I'm falling in love. I am in love. and it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that, as sure as I am of the fact what I feel for Ky is something different.

That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)

Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back

He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel.

Do not go gentle. So I fight. I fight the only way I know how.

Nothing is really lost as long as you remember it

She was born to be free, let her run wild in her own way and you will never lose her.

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

Since I left Chicago, I'm a lone wolf. I put on the record player and sit and try to play on the guitar. I've got five guitars here and can't play them, but I'm always whompin' around.

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

I started my career off replacing Rita Moreno in a Broadway show.

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!

My dad was a Buddhist when I was young. So, at a point when I begging become Catholic he was saying "no" and imparting Buddhist precepts.