I enjoy being influenced by other writers.

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.

Today, it isn't unusual for meat to travel almost halfway around the globe to reach your supermarket. The average distance our meat travels hovers arounf fifteen hundred miles.

Vulnerability is what heals us.

You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you

I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs.

Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?

I'd spare your tears for the rest of your life if I could.

The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.