I don't know how to describe it, but the more I stare at him, the more I see his grief wrapped around him like shackles he can never take off.

You're like a grey sky. You're beautiful, even though you don't want to be.

Sometimes I wonder if my heart is like a black hole--it's so dense that there's no room for light, but that doesn't mean it can't still suck me in.

I will be stronger than my sadness.

..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative.

I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.I don't want it to win.

He can't make me love him when he's going to leave me.

Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.

Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.

Something inside me clicks. It's like I've spent my whole life fiddling with a complicated combination only to discover I was toying with the wrong lock.

Do you believe in other universes? Do you think there's another dimension where we're happy?

I think having the knowledge, plus the experiences you've lived through, make you definitely not fragile. They make you brave.

Spirituality is feeling a oneness with humanity.

On my fifteenth birthday, I came to realize that the expression spoiled rotten meant exactly that. We kids were the apples of our parents' eyes, and I, for one, was rotting from inside out.

A child's growth is defined entirely by the adult that raises him.

Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.

A sports bar is a way to take a bar and fill it with even more annoying people than usual.

Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.

The rabbis paled. I’d managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.

They say love thy neighbor as thy self , what am I supposed to do jerk him off too?

I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.