That's the thing. You come back and you expect everyone to be just the way they were when you left. But it's not that easy, okay? You can't just force us all to be how you liked us.

I thought maybe a day was coming when I'd stop constantly worrying about how to live. Maybe at some point I'd just start living, no questions asked.

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.

We all get lots of people. And maybe we don’t always get to have them the exact way we want them, but if we can figure out a way to compromise, you know, then we can keep them all.

Everyone just outgrew me. Now I think I'm just haunting them.

You're both living these lives you didn't choose to live in a world full of people telling you what that's supposed to mean. That's messed up.

If your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough.

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains.

I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms.

You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.

Spread love and understanding,” Reacher said. “Use force if necessary.

Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music.

Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.