It's a sad thing to watch your best friend turn into somebody you don't know anymore. Or even want to know.

If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.

There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.

I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine.

I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.

Nothing says hell has to be fire.

If love drove people mad, what would lack of love do?

The thing is, all memory is fiction.

The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.

Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left them hurting.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Tape record your parents' laughter

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.

In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand.

You will win if you don't quit

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

" [Donald] Trump may indeed be a little fascistic."New York Times wrote.

Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.