Having begun to feel, people’s desire to feel grew. They wanted to feel more, feel deeper, despite how it sometimes hurt. People became addicted to feeling. They struggled to uncover new emotions.

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?

All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist.

Be the music of your soul. Don't be a pawn in someone else's game.

Every summer there are a number of nights, not many, but a number, when everything is perfect. The light, the warmth, the smells, the mist, the birdsong – the moths. Who can sleep? Who wants to?

Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

Come from a place of love. Love isn't passive or shy. It's actually the most powerful energy in the universe.

Judgment is affirmation with the intention to thereby affirm competently enough, and indeed aptly. That distinguishes judgments from mere guesses.

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

Being in Europe had helped me unlearn some of what I'd been taught or unconsciously believed.

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

Perhaps YOU can help solve a mystery.

Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's head. Mine was First Things.