There is no easy off button for your brain.It would be really really nice if there were.

I just think about how saying that you love someone can make your heart feel like some sort of brownie sundae, warm, gooey, sweet and good.

We all live with our losses. We don't want to, but we can

You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.

Home is where the heart is.

I like a lot of things that aren't good for me.

The ending has to fit. The ending has to matter, and make sense. I could care less about whether it's happy or sad or atomic. The ending is the place where you go, “Aha. Of course. That's right.”

It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself

Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.

It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that mostly freaks me out. I don't know the name of that fear, but I know I've got it, the fear of the unknown.

What we do, our choices, that's what defines us

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place.

...you canʹt always choose how you love a person. Love isnʹt logical or fair. It just happens.

I believe that people will do what is right and good if they are given a chance and are convinced that what they are being asked to do will truly help others.

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

At some point, there would simply be no point.

For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.

I had never worked in that environment where you're able to play.

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.