A break up is the closest thing to bereavement

New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something

I had always been warned that American didn't always get sarcasm

Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.

If you didn't feel like your support system was strong enough, then getting yourself out of the situation was the best thing to do

It's OK not to be OK.

Was I happy? Maybe more content thanbouncing-off-the-sofa-like-Tom-Cruise-ecstatic, but that’s still happy isn’t it?

People go to LA to "find themselves", they come to New York to become someone new.

Foggy nights bring some comfort.He can get lost in the mistand there is no one to stare or question.

Behold, behold.

Set your peace freebefore your caged mind catchesyou again in another dream trapwhere you may loathe to be your own menace awaiting in hope of a war-less world !

You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.

[G]iving yourself some loving attention is not selfish. It is sensible. If you feel loved and cherished--even if it is only by yourself--then you will have more love to give to others, too. (83)

the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.

Somebody figured it out- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.

If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.