Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.

Sometimes I lie in bed trying to decide which of my friends I truly care about, and I always come to the same conclusion: none of them.

I wondered how many other things had flown past me into death. Perhaps many. Perhaps I was flying past them, like the grim reaper, signaling the end. This would explain so much.

So this was what it was like not to be me.

If I could quietly kill her without anyone knowing, I would.

The boy was growing bored and this was a form of growing up.

Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

We have allowed a situation to develop in which it is legal for a multibillion dollar industry to own, wholly and in perpetuity, the intimate and personal details of children.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

My overall responsibility is to be truthful. If people pay money to come and see me, looking for something other than that, then they've made a mistake.

Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.

Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse.

I think people see me definitely as a "gangsta" rapper, and what people love about me is when they meet me and they meet me again later, I'm the same dude they spoke to and ain't nothing changed.