“Love is always being given where it is not required.”

“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?”

“Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.”

“History develops, art stands still.”

“Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.”

“Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“Like a sneeze, sin feels good at first, but it leaves a huge mess.”

“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.”