I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.

I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.

If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.

I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.

I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.

I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

I have been like a mediocre concert pianist playing in front of a tone-deaf family, who applaud out of duty rather than for accomplishment.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

Exploration is the sport of the scientist

I would like to be writing more because people are constantly asking me questions, and I write down what they are asking me.

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

What happens, matters. Maybe only to us but it matters.

Skateistan's not just about skating. It’s giving people life skills and hope for the future.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.