She was always the first to love, first to encourage, first to forgive...for everyone but herself.

When my worldwas nothing but darknessI set my soul on fire.

I lived for so long without you, only dreaming of the concept of you. And, now that I know you, I can't imagine going back there... to a me that didn't know your name.

She chose messy, she chose wild. She chose life on her own terms.

We can feel damaged and sad and mad and know that it doesn’t make us any less worthy than when we didn’t feel that way.

Sometimes, the emptiness comes to fill the space between my heart and my head. It consumes every thought, every corner of my mind, like demons that can’t be put to bed.

Fear is a fickle friend who will loyally stand by your side as long as you allow it to diminish you.

Not many get to see this side of him. So, if you do, know that you’re lucky.

There is a reasonthat the worldis not black and white, for chaosdemands color.

I promise permanence. I promise persistence. I promise that falling in love was just the beginning for us.

So many questionsbut nothing to say, in this current momentwe are still so farfrom the answers.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

I say a little prayer every time I see a race. I say a little prayer that the riders and the horses will be okay.

You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools.

Faith is learned through life.

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.