It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

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.

A few said they'd be horses. Most said they'd be some sort of cat. My friend said she'd like to come back as a porcupine. I don't like crowds, she said.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.

People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.

We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.

The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.

I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.

Everything I see is something I haven't memorized.

Our people sacrifice a lot for their country, including their lives. None of them should have to sacrifice their integrity as well.

I deserve that, don't I, some sort of blazing love that I can live with.