absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

we both smile and we are conspirators.

That's when I remember if you have a choice, always ask friends to leave in a very nice voice.

Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound.~Slater

Before God, I'm an intimate. Before people, I'm a servant. Before the powers of hell, I'm a ruler, with no tolerance for their influence. Wisdom knows which role to fulfill at the proper time

The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.

I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

A brand is a voice and a product is a souvenir.

There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does.

On your birthday thank your parents and celebrate with them. They are the reason you are here and it is their day too.

Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.