We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

There is nothing perfect...only life.

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.

There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

You want to reach people on a real level and have a fan base that understands you.

Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.

You have to understand as a marketer that consumers are functioning in the age of efficiency.

The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage. [Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret.]

Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn’t realize that “test” is normally a bad thing.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

You’re really not right, are you? Yeah, I know. It was all the paint chips I ate as a kid. They were good, but chromosomally damaging. (Nick)