Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.

When in doubt, ingest carbs.

I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.

I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob.

It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.

I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.

The reward is in the risk.

The handwriting was a girl’s. I mean, you can tell. That enchanted cursive.

Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.

Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.

One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness.

Chasing money to please society.

I tell myself I’m fine on my own, but am I? No friends to fall back on, no relationships, no support. Left to my own devices, I have no devices.

Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.

The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'

Picking up our Bibles, we should give God our full attention, withhold our opinion until we understand what He is saying, listen without interrupting, and respond with understanding and obedience.

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.

But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.

If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.

It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours.