Don't let them make you doubt yourself. All the greatest visionaries in history have been told they were insane at some point.

that arctic blast you're feeling? it's the chill coming off my cold shoulder

You can only run away from a house. Home is something you run toward.

i never thought of it before, but with your height and build, you are going to look SO CUTE in your straitjacket.

It's so nice to have sane friends. I imagine.

...Go live ITM." ITM?" In the Mo," Beth elaborated.

I think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop." (hardcover page 37)

Popularity can be a real headache.

talking to yourself again, jas? yes, it beats talking to you. oh, time machine back to first grade much? only to visit your brain.

little life lesson 23: before making a snide comment about someone else's outfit, check to see if you're wearing knee boots with fringe. if you answer yes, drop it. just do.

favor de dejar un especimim em este copa para el doctor what? she told you to pee in a cup, i think that means get lost

And here face down beneath the sunAnd here upon earth's noonward heightTo feel the always coming onThe always rising of the night

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

Yeah, I've been a little down. Totally natural. I'm getting a divorce, but now I'm ready to pull myself up by some G-strings.

To learn true humility, we need more than a redefinition of greatness; we need even more than Jesus' personal example of humble service. What we need is His death.

A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.

Science always uses metaphor.

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.

Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.