My breath in the cold air was bleach that accidentally spilled on a black t-shirt.

It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.

Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.

Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.

You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things, I imagine.

In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.

Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.

The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.

Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.

Deriving truth from joy may be far more easier than generating joy from the truth.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

Why do they collect garbarge at 5am? Why? It's garbage. It's not going to go bad again.

We have to take care of the people that can't take care of themselves. And I will do that through a different system.

Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

Writing can be wonderful therapy, and cheap at the price. At the very least, you eventually get bored by thinking about anxious topics and move on.

Karate-do may be referred to as the conflict within yourself, or a life-long marathon which can be won only through self-discipline, hard training, and your own creative efforts.

There will be rough nights but joy really does come in the morning.

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.