But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the humiliation is as stark as a streaker on a football.

...When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.

When you're right there in the crisi, you'll do anything to make yourself feel better, distract yourself from the misery, deny reality, not matter how stupid.

If you're happy inside you don't have to convince everyone else.

You can hate a person with your whole body, but love is a stubborn thing, it clings on in your heart.

There's a time in your life when you have to stop looking back and start looking forward because otherwise you're going to walk down the road one day and bump into a lamppost. But it's not easy.

He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.

It costs about the same to house a maximum-security young adult prisoner for a year as it does to send his law-abiding counterpart to Harvard.

As a radiation researcher, I am at one with being perceived as crazy!

What is the hardest, but best thing in life? Love <3

My wife's married. I'm not.

I can't write. I would love to. I don't really have an interest in it, to be honest. I'll leave that to my fiance.

A breath of steam trickles out, filled with the sobs of a grown woman breaking into girl-sized pieces.

I realized that the people weren't just characters but they were people and they were getting to do something that was so fun and I wanted to be a part of it.

God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.