In the face of immense tragedy—yet again—unexpected beauty.

No matter how far I try to travel from people, people always appear. Either they follow me, or they're already there, and I followed them, unwittingly.

How easy to be electrocuted. How fine the line between beauty and peril.

I love that an idea can be so powerful it doesn't matter whether I've seen the artwork for real or not.

Now I wonder if each artwork is in fact utterly inaccessible to everybody but the person to whom it is secretly addressed?

Art, and sadness, which last forever.

Blending into the tinctures and textures of the countryside. The tree which falls without any human hearing still falls, as the creatures who die without being found by a human still die.

I see foxes often, but always they are crossing fallow fields in the distance. Gold flecks on faraway expanses of green. Magnetic to the meandering eye. Enigmatic, unreachable.

I decided that if I didn't allow myself to fall asleep, then I wouldn't have to wake up again and despair.

My mother says: 'People who suffer from anxiety are usually those with the most vivid imaginations.

It’s time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.

...like a small stone deflected off a larger one, my brother had spun off toward the Almighty, though to my mind the events of that morning could just as well have cast him the other way.

Link: .....It’s the imperfections that give you character out here.

Had I known that coffee could taste so good, I would have gotten drunk on it every day.

Watching soccer just makes me wish I was watching Foosball.

It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.

Being close ain't good enough.

Sometimes when you're looking for an answer, you search everywhere else before you take a look at what's right in front of you.

Look past the garbage over the trains, Under the ruins through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me where I fit in?..

Fix me up with a mannequin, just remember I like blondes. I'll be the life of the party, even when I'm dead and gone.

I know the team, as a whole, has had an impact on the youth of the church, and on the missionary efforts throughout the world.