I lost someone close to me once . . . Taught me to live in the moment. Life is short, you know?

If that’s the case, I understand why emotions are hard for you. You’ve numbed yourself to make room for the grief you carry.

I gave up drinking before my twentieth birthday. I haven’t touched the stuff since. And I’ve discovered that not everyone who does horrible things is a horrible person.

See, you’ve got to understand, son. There’s two types of guys in this world. There’s guys . . . who think they’re in control, and guys like us who live in the moment. Who accept life as it is.

It’s like you’re always living in your head. . . . Relax and appreciate your surroundings a little.

It feels like I’m stuck in one spot. It’s been this way for a long time. I know you understand, but now you’re moving on without me. And I—I’m not ready to be alone.

It’s like everyone has their own little recipe for happiness, but no one really seems all that happy.

Happiness isn’t something you work toward, the same way misery isn’t something you work toward.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.

I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.

Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.

What I loved about it was language-wise it wasn't that finely-tuned-perfect-insult-for-the-perfect-situation that sometimes we try and do on Veep.

Reform is Chinas second revolution.

The implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing.

Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.

Mario you are a great chef but you look like a homeless James Gandolfini.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.