I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

When in doubt, ingest carbs.

I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.

I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob.

It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.

I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.

The reward is in the risk.

The handwriting was a girl’s. I mean, you can tell. That enchanted cursive.

Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.

Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.

One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness.

You only live once, but can be born twice. Then, you can live forever.

I don't mind loosing when the other person need for winning is more than mine.....

A writer must be willing to leave oneself behind in order to explore new territories of the mind and unearth primordial truths that startle and frighten us.

At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace.

When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new one.

Dating a white girl is like dating a black girl if she were really passive-agressive.

We see in meditation that our experiences are endless, that we are endless, eternal spirit, not as a thought or an idea you read in a book. You have the experience yourself, every day.

Don’t coach for the name on your business card

Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.