Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.

I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.