What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Gratitude has the power to fill your heart with love and your life with abundance.

Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.

Preparation, application and determination are three of the most important factors that enable you to regain your sparkle and shine like never before.

civilization is the very root cause of the woes of civilization

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I wear what fits Ghostface; I'm not gonna wear anything that makes me look strange.

I just want it to be better, I just want to be better, but this is very encouraging.

There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.

Needing someone doesn't make you weak, it makes you feel. And feeling is how you know you're alive.

Times are hard and friends are few