Standing up for what's right is a huge burden to bear. It's normal to have some doubt.

Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.

We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core. Without them, we are empty.

Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.

As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.

Trains are all the ways you miss each other-wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.

When someone you love has died, there is a certain grace period during which you can get away with murder. Not literal murder, but pretty much anything else.

Do you need anything?" she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? "Nah, I'm good.

Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don't enter anymore.

Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.

Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

The present is the necessary product of all the past the necessary cause of all the future.

I have one piece of advice for you: sleep your way to the top.

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

It was a lot of fun doing the Nike commercials, too.

The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'

They'll just cut our wrists like Cheap coupons and say that death Was on sale today.

Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.

No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, "Onward toward mediocrity."

Sometime I think; and sometime I am.