...there's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge don't fail us.

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.

When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.

Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.

Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.

I Know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am So if you don't like it, Tough!

I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace

Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.

We like rain if the sun comes after it; we like night if the day comes after it; we like everything conditionally! We are conditional people!

Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.

I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.

A considerable role in the forming of my style was played by an early attraction to study composition.