I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.

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.

Don't be afraid to have nothing.

Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home.

Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.

Everything I do has a moral to it.

In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

They say great themes make great novels

True peace is a quality you carry within yourself, regardless of external circumstances.

At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.

It's so important that we say 'I can see his point of view and I can see his point of view'.

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.

I’m just enjoying just having a little me time, you know? But it’s not that I’m not taking applications.