These days, you’ve gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.

But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.

I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

I'll be your mess, you be mine That was the deal that we had signed

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

Respect your haters

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.

Mr. Watras asked me whether I was practicing, and I told him I was practicing my tissue basketball skills.

If there's anything mean in a feller, a litter authority will bring it out.

Sight is what you see with your eyes, vision is what you see with your mind.

Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.