I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen.

I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.

Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever

She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

The first thing I notice is the sky, so full of blue and the kind of brilliant white clouds that make you ecstatic to have eyes. Nothing can go wrong under this sky.

I'm layering away: sauce, noodles, I belong to you, cheese, sauce, my heart is yours, noodles, cheese, I hear your soul in your music, cheese, cheese, CHEESE.

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.

Fun is never gone because life is fun.

She makes love just like a woman.

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel.

When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.

None but a woman can teach the science of herself.

Sometimes a collage element I hit upon can inspire the entire drawing.

I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.

I think that being on the road and doing more and more stand-up has allowed me to figure out... like, I don't think I'll ever be Bill Hicks, but I think I'm figuring out what my opinion is on things.

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.