But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.

I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

I'll be your mess, you be mine That was the deal that we had signed

Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...

It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all.

Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.

The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.

And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is.

The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault.

Dare to be a sucky skateboarder or a lousy video editor or a completely crappy golfer. If we do only the stuff we’re good at, we never learn anything new.

My enemies make appointments at my tomb.