Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

[God] can help you begin to rebuild your marriage and your life if you will let Him rule in your life.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Everything on the internet is real god damn it!

I found my voice in books.

My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.

I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes.

I'm very, very in touch with my emotions.

If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.

Seekers are all following some distant star, and eventually will come to recognize that this star resides in their very core.

I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.