Well we have to. We have to remember everything. If we don’t, by the time we grow up it’ll be gone forever.

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.

...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.

You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.

Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say?

That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.

There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.

What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.

All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head.

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series.

Framing effects can be very influential, and to the degree that you can think of a task as close rather than distant, you're more likely to actually get it done.

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.