Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stinging you.

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.

Minds have their own weather systems. You are in a hurricane. Hurricanes run out of energy eventually. Hold on.

Forcing yourself to see the world through love's gaze can be healthy. Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.

That kind of monotony that running generates - the one soundtracked by heavy breathing and the steady rhythm of feet on pavements - became a kind of metaphor for depression.

One cliche attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely.

The way out is never through yourself.

I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead, I just didn't want to be alive.

Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.

A million people a year kill themselves. Between ten and twenty million people a year try to. Worldwide, men are over three times more likely to kill themselves than women.

There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.

... A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already.

Our rages daughters of despair creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.

There are many movies that I like, but I'm not sure if they have inspired me.

One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.

Let light hearts remake us.

A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

I like to keep my face "pretty" because then I won't be like oh my god, what are you doing here?

The beginning of mindful eating is the realization that eating meat is not about the meat-eater; it is about the animals who are tormented and killed.