No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other and the rest of the world can go to hell.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

I think I knew from the first moment I met her, she would be the one to replace me. I didn't think it would happen that fast, but it did.

...you became lost in the maze of me - forgive me Love, for keeping you close...

People always say in the end you only regret the choices you didn't make but I really think you also regret the choices you were foolish enough to make.

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.

Howard Dean is narrowing the field of potential running mates. It's down to Mike Tyson or Bobby Knight.

People speak of a will to live. They rarely speak of a will to die. Because people are afraid of death. Death is dark and unknown and frightening. But not for me. It is not the end.

Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.

A great song will say how you feel better than you ever could.