We're in the age of the series, trilogy, boxed sets.

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

Life is very tough sometimes, but never tougher than a highly determined positive mind.

It’s amazing how many different roads we can take, but they all lead home.

...I conducted a number of experiments to get in touch with my future self. Here are my favorite

I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain, ” she says. “Not books.

Through failure we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed painful though it is.

I don't want to pierce anything. I think it's outdated. Belly rings and all are, like, old.

She took a leap of faith and grew her wings on the way down.

If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.

Since you've been gone, I can breath for the first time.

There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.