Are you ever afraid to go to sleep? Afraid of what comes next?” He smiles a sad little smile and I swear it’s like he knows. “Sometimes I’m afraid of what I’m leaving behind,” he says.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.

By walking, I found out where I was going.

We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.

Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.

After the two drinks, she felt warm inside, and slightly indistinct at the edges.

I started at 14, and only played bass. I traded in my train set for a bass, and used my dad's amp.

Make a choice of what you want, who you want to be and how you're going to do it. The universe will get out of your way.

Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.