...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.

Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup.

Amen' is like the Send button on an email.

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.

Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!

The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.

The past is truly an inoperable tumour that spreads to the present.

God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first.

Until you are conscious of your conscience, you are morally unconscious.

This one makes a net this one stands and wishes. Would you like to make a bet which one gets the fishes?

The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting.

I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.

Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality?

When a marriage ends, who is left to understand it?

I'm just going to punch him and do my best. If the knockout comes, it comes.

It's kind of ironic that if I get my Ph.D., I'll be a real doctor