I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.

Opening a door to the mysteries, hoping to shed a little dark on all the stuff we think we know.

Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.

There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.