Don't be afraid to have nothing.

Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup.

When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.

Amen' is like the Send button on an email.

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.

Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.

Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.

Be not afraid of life believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.

Something of a pattern had started to form and it was ugly.

Your problem is a serious lack of imagination. You can’t imagine being different than you are.

It’s on the path of simplicity that love prefers to walk.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

I think psychology would be an easy transition and figuring out the human mind somehow.