I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.

In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.

...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.

My favorite songs change every year.

You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.

The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.

I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.

I wonder how well she sleeps at night, and what kind of dreams she has. I wish I could step into them like she steps into mine.

Religion is the politics of faith

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.

The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats.

I didn't have a normal childhood by any means.