If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less.

Men cannot give a meaning to history that they themselves lack, nor can they honor a past which indicts them for their present failures.

Anger is fleeting, whereas hostility is enduring.

If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.

...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

We're not meant for happiness, you and I.

What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky.