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

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.

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

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.

Failures of nerve and energy are not permitted. That's what it means to be an object.

Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.

I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities.

That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.

It is very important to have a widespread curiosity about life.

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

I want to be something special. I want to be known as a great female basketballer.

Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.

The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.