We cling to the most painful reminders of our youth, our memories or our injuries, perhaps so we can look back to our former selves, console them, and say: Keep going. I know how the story ends.

No one can ever know you like those with whom you've shared the pangs of your youth.

Maybe that's just what nostalgia is: a willingness to embrace the pain of the past.

From the Buddhist perspective, the only lasting way to bring about change is for people themselves to change.

Every person lives bounded by the structural formation of human anatomy and the provincial demands of the human condition.

In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink every hour or two, under penalty of freezing to death.

Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.

I have no interest in problematizing things. So what I am writing to is that simple sense of being human in myself.

I'm just a Westside lover, I leave females in my sheets and all my feelings in a rubber.

We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices.

Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother.

If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom'd to the day.

What we can do, we will try to do.