more to be a human being with

The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

(The raindrops) played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow.

We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.

She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand. You know what that feels like? Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.

Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

It’s frightening because love is unpredictable, emotionally unstable, and uncontainable.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

The ball was coming down like a butterfly with sore feet.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.

No one's ever gotten better by practicing less.

Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and still/ Giving light, dying.

We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.