"Death cannot kill that which does not die."

“Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing.”

Source : Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Brother Lawrence Collection”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

“I'll get into a pattern where I start sleeping only between 12 and 3.30, and go for weeks like that.”

Source : "Secrets and lives" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2003.

“No thought lives in your head rent-free.”

“When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left. You can demand something like this of yourself as an unattainable ideal. After that, you have to remind yourself about it every time you're sloppy about something. For me that means 250 times a day.”

“I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.”

Source : "I prefer birdsong to chatter". Interview with Helen Birch, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2005.

“I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.”

“If you have a friend with a blond mustache, he wants to touch you.”

“We went to Comic-Con and there were people dressed up as the characters. There's a whole canon of Ninjago history that I didn't even know about until the process of making the movie had started. Especially at Comic-Con, I realized that people really, really care about this, and I hope they like it because it's meaningful to them. It did actually change my feelings about it.”