Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.

Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup.

Amen' is like the Send button on an email.

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!

...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.

The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.

The past is truly an inoperable tumour that spreads to the present.

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda.

People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

Death Of A Salesman is a great acting job.

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

Fixed formation is bad. Study this well.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

We have to change this whole earth into a tremendous festival, and it is possible because man brings all that is needed to transform this earth into a paradise.

Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.