Truces may stop the battles, but part of you will always feel like you're at war.

When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.

Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust.That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

It's hard to think of such things when you are busy dreaming or loving or screwing. The context falls away.

I'm sorry, " he says. "I don't usually like people. So when I do, part of me is really amused and the other part refuses to believe it's happening.

As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter. You up? he asks.And the reply comes instantly:For anything.

What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread

Dreaming and loving and screwing. None of these are identities. Maybe when other people look at us, but not to ourselves. We are so much more complicated than that.

So what’s your story?” Ryan asks.Avery looks up at him, hand still in the water. “My story?”“Yeah. Everybody has at least one.

This is the power of a kiss: It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.

To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.

If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve.

Self-destruction is inevitable because existence is a full-time job.

The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.

I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.

An oblique angle,” Jack said, and his bout of jealousy was quickly replaced with glee. “Ha! I told you I would work that in!

With the media how it is these days, people expect to know everything. I don't talk about my girlfriend because essentially she doesn't want to be talked about.

Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?

One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.