Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

In brokenness comes beauty, divine fragility.

The belonging you seek is not behind you. It is ahead.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.

Your imagination is your most important tool, as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.

You might be a redneck if an expired license plate means another decoration for your living room wall.

Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.