You can't have real pain without real love. You can't feel grief and loss and hurt without real love. Love is the only way you can ever be really hurt deep down.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.

Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.

Pain is life. Life is pain.

Old age is a powerful disguise.

Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.

If you should not take your thoughts seriously, then why the thoughts of others?

And if we burn, you burn with us.

When you make a commitment, you build trust. when you keep it, you build trust.

the rape willtear youin halfbut it will notend you

Sometimes I get so frustrated with folk talking about how busy the devil is. Own your mess! You might be the devil. Stop inviting MESS into your life and blaming the devil!

Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

Baseball can build you up to the sky one day and the next day you have to climb a stepladder to look up at a snake.

Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.