When words failed I realized there was something unspeakably beautiful in not being able to put words to your happiness.

He asked me once what I wanted when I died, what I wanted out of life, and I told him I just wanted more happy memories than sad ones.

Sleeping with books is a vicious affair, I do not believe it will ever stop.

Love no longer becomes a feeling - it becomes a storm.

I found there are many things women ask for in a love. Other women demand money, power, or adventure. All I pray for is that he is patient, and plead that he will love me.

Your beauty will be in shades of melanin and light.

I love the way you lit candles, with the insistence that I never look, just so I can open my eyes and find the light in the darkness.

I'm starting to learn that if things are messy, or pieces don't get put back right, they are going to hurt, either way.

I will never ask of you the impossible, I just ask you to love me in the best way you can.

It is funny how when you have been hurt in love and you fall in love again, every reason you have for loving that person is both enough and not, all at once.

But, darling, I need you to know, you loving me will not heal me. Please realize, I already know that. And I do not expect it to.

Maybe art itself was a kind of voodoo, possessing you, giving you supernatural power, letting you see in the dark.

Don’t be worried about the future. Live this moment so totally that the next moment comes out of it golden.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.

If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.

In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.

I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.

You basically only discover a new thing once.