My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.

I want to be violated by insight.

We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

We’ll make out for a while and you’ll feel better.

Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.

The cafeteria made him feel like an observer rather than a participant in the high school experience.

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn't.

The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.

The #1 reasons are unsuccessful is their inability to lead themselves.

We are to enjoy what we have while we have it, but we are never to get to the point where we think we could not love without it.

For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order.

Doverey, no proverey - Trust but verify.