The sports arena Julie calls home is unaccountably large, perhaps one of those dual-event 'super venues' built for an era when the greatest quandary facing the world was where to put all the parties.

In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.

My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.

...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.

My favorite songs change every year.

You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.

The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.

I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.

First opportunity is the golden opportunity.

Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.

All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them.

Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

When libertarian sentiments take a populist form, it looks like this: a mix of anger, fear, anti-intellectualism, and fierce government hostility. Welcome to the Tea Party movement.

The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.

In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.

Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.