I wonder what it will be like when I leave this place.

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

We accept the love we think we deserve.

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.

When we think of all the beatitudes in life, our heart shall be merry.

When you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.

Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There’s a whole commotion going on inside us.

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

I'm not a leading guy.