I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

Creativity begins with a walk with nature.

What does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.

You don’t have to be perfect to be pretty.

I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.

Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

I should now find myself a wife!

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.