"Viewers of television, for instance, aren't aware of their own physical vulnerabilities. They get used, manipulated by images of depersonalized sex."

"Sandra let her words fly on an arrow of certainty. "I know the whereabouts of a bona fide extra terrestrial.""

"Gods were crucified, scientists and inventors tortured and persecuted, artists slandered."

"Life kissed her however it could."

"Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?"

"I suppose it would be a lot easier if a training manual were issued at puberty. Chapter One: what your body is feeling isn't necessarily you."

"How amazingly genetic."

"I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer."

"Her countenance was like a newborn's, just taking everything in without filter or defense."

"The door swung smoothly open, surprising her. A girl stood there. Barefoot. Dressed in a trash bag."

"He was acting on a reason other than the avoidance of pain. The sentiment was loyalty, and it felt glorious."

"Our trust exchanged dependency."

"Once, before Time..."

"Which came first — the observer or the particle?"

"Evil's last voice croaked to me, "How did you know I was only bluffing?" Because he wept. Because he wept."

"The body knows no pain, not like the soul. At least a nerve has limits, a body part a name. But the soul … the soul … There is no bandage -- even crying is in vain."

"Within me, and in others, what I seek to know is the darkness and the glory of all humanity. My vulnerability leads me to Truth, which is the ultimate defense.""

"Harmony, rhythm, concision, concinnity are all elements that are epitomized in poetry. Cultivated in poetry, which is the nucleus of the creative impulse, these elemetns serve every art form: acting a character, writing a novel, creating music, dance, sculpture, painting.""

"Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there."

"Have you, with your work, made anyone glow? Erupted their sorrow? Evicted their woe? Have you been anyone's consolation through a night? Have you evoked unrehearsed emotion? Chiseled a crack in someone's encasement and watched them escape? Followed the muses wherever they led? Kept on creating when left for dead? Do not bother me with punctuation until you have earned your degree."

"Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist."

"Love is the eternal first breath."

"Some things can never be explained. Like the summer Jim died and they called his name the next year in class and he didn't answer."

"In her heart she harbors hatred for me, but it would ruin the game if we didn't have tea. The words slither out laced with venom so vile it would pucker my face but she says it and smiles."

"The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information."

"Stella, I never knew you but here I am, in your room, a week after your death. … I thought of you, Stella, and wondered if you watched your moments, or if they all snuck by. I whispered your name into the day, carried on for you in reverence, and I felt you rest and continue the smile."

"When we love there is no reason why."

"People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon."

"I am, therefore I think."

"Popularity is not an indication of quality."

"She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating."

"Fame is not the glory; virtue is the goal, and Fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold."

"Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation."

"The impact of space activities is nothing less than the galvanizing of hope and imagination for human life continuum into a future of infinite possibility."

"Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind’s focus onto conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation."

"Infinity is a territory toward which the inherent human impetus of conquest can be productively directed."

"The stars are not the limit."

"We saw Earth’s breath."

"'Impossible' is not a scientific term."

"When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it’s about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome."

"The success of SpaceShipOne was Justice Day for dreamers and pioneers past, present and future."

"Love consults itself."

"I believe Love is the most courageous act of which a human being is capable. The word courage even stems from the root word “heart” (coeur). Scientifically speaking, it is quantifiable only by recognition of its quality."

"Our heartbeats pounding tomorrow into being..."

"We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe."

"Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion."