...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.

That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.

Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?

I'm sorry," I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.

I'll never be ready. Yet at the same time, you always want to reach the end. You can't fly to a destination and linger in the air. I want to reach the end of this thing, and I feel terrible about it.

I like the way men cry. They're efficient.

Because feeling love does make you feel superior. Until you find out you aren't loved back.

You can't compare and rank heartache. Pain is pain is pain. There is no precise measurement. No quarter cup.

Perhaps I did nothing because I don't have enough fear to be a good parent.

I'm sorry, " I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.

I'm sorry, I say. I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.

And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.

I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.

It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.

Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean.

The original answer defines certain conditions. Anything else is a different question.

When we say Bharat Vijay Rally, we intend to focus on making India emerge victorious over price rise, corruption, unemployment and mis-governance.

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier to write than a novel.

In meditation, whatever happens is bound to be expressed in creativity.

Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.

I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.