Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic

O how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.

I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system."

I feel that when two people are married - not that you have to totally give up your career - you have to spend time with one another, get to know each other more, just share things with each other.

Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

Choose, but don't want.

Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.

I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day