And it hit me like a ton of bricks - that people will put you on a pedestalto only later pull it from under you. Stability.

You shut your eyes to keep out the light because the light reminds you that you are alive

Existing is exhausting.I want to live - How to be

If people spend years trying to prove that you are less than it's because you are more than enough and they feel threatened. You are more than people's opinions.

He was the kind of boy to crush your heart into dust then snort it off the table in front of you.

Subjectivity measures nothing consistently.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.

Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.

The trick isn't adding stuff, it's taking away.

My ideal office wouldn't have a chair. You would do two things there: stand up or lie down. These are the body's most natural positions.

Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.

I thought it was excellent, to tell you the truth.

Outward appearances mean everything.

The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.