What is it with you and that book?"Rafael laughed. "We have a personal relationship.

The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.

Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.

I wish I didn’t have a heart that God wrote Sad on.

But the thing is, I didn't make my friends happy and they didn't make me happy. All we did was get stoned out of our minds. That didn't have anything to do with happiness.

I’m not a good kid. Yeah, look, I’m just a piece of paper with the word sad and a bunch of cuss words written on it.A lousy piece of paper. That’s me.A piece of paper that’s waiting to be torn up.

I’d rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty.

Breakfast seemed to be a good time for throwing your emotions around. Jodie said that at this place emotions were like Frisbees – people just tossed them around all day long like they were at a park.

One of my roommates, Rafael, he's an expert on monsters. Not that he talks about them. I can just tell. People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.

People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.

I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.

I knit for Caps for Good - a charity that gives hats to Third World babies - while I watch movies with friends.

Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be.

They love too much that die for love.

We all get pigeon-holed or put in a box, no matter what that might be.

it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.

As a result of that, and as a result of friendship, I don't think we've ever been competitive. I mean, there's probably a very good reason Hunter [S. Thompson] isn't jealous of me.

I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.