Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana.

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

Man loves little and often woman much and rarely.

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

The thorne comes forth with the point forwards.

If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.

Even people within a relationship can be really alone, and then have to go outside of it in order to find something, whatever it is. It may be very bizarre and maybe something very tender.

I don't believe in natural science.

I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.