Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

All I need to dois place my pen against paperand your lovewrites for me.

Every man needs a shadow to reveal his light, to always be that close, ever present, bonded forever in astral allegiance.

I am a merchant of dreams who sells you for free.

I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success

Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.

Buddy of mine once told me that he'd rather fly a jet than kiss his girl. Said it gave him more of a kick.

When we no longer are afraid of who we are we act from integrity and authenticity.

An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.

I keep thinking the bad guys will win in the end and take it all away, but somehow it all seems to keep working.

I never regret my past... Only time I wasted was on the wrong people.