When you're younger, you do have that thing that you were talking about where the mouth goes dry. I mean you have reactions, and you do fall in love.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

...'being published’ is not the same as being a real writer.

Is it better to have bronze than copper and tin separately? Is this the marker of some historic advance?

There are certain relationships that just don't fit into "good" or "bad"; they transcend it.

The mind may find unique ways to express what it conceives of reality, but reality remains unchanged by the mind's efforts.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.

I am very close with my parents, they are very amazing, so loving, so cool, and really valued art.

One of the great things is, you're never a producer unless you're making a movie.

Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.