I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.

I want to be violated by insight.

We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

Analyzing everyday situations using a systematic approach similar to that utilized by physicians when investigating a medical mysteries can result in better choices.

Beard is like Niqab, that covers cheeks

I'm my own biggest critic, and the only way I'm going to improve is to see what I was doing wrong.

I'll go for God, country, and my baby. Sure, as these teardrops burn, I promise to return, and when I'm home, I'll cling to the arms of my baby.

Seems to me God made a big mistake when He failed to put handles on watermelons.

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

I can neither return your love nor dismiss it.

True #‎ anarchism will be #‎ capitalism , and true capitalism will be anarchism.

You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.