It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.

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.

Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.

It's karma, baby. And it goes around.

I couldn't do anything without faith. I couldn't open up my eyes, I couldn't walk, I couldn't speak, I couldn't sing.

You can open to the idea that whatever happened to you in the past eventually turned out or will turn out to be a benefit to you.

Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.

Don’t call me a loser in front of my mom!

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.