Relax. You are beautiful, and everyone wants some of that beauty.

She was my friend and I loved her and relied on her, even though there were days when her moodiness and fragility frightened me, because they reminded me of my own tenuous grasp on life.

I learned that day that there is no more lonely state than being in a lonely marriage.

I had hoped that the rest of the world would stand still while I got myself together again, but Chaos and Tragedy had marched into other lives close to mine as well.

Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry.

At some point, I had to start laughing, because I was all wrung out from crying.

The most non-understandable concept of the universe is TIME!

It's interesting how pain can change a person, eh? How it makes a man abandon his pride and forsake himself.

Switch on your smile, laugh without reason. You control happiness, you change the world.

The magazine said to blend. Daisy blended for all she was worth, trying to spread that dark stuff around.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful careless voyage.

Mess with nature and it will mess right back.

There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.

...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.