and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.

Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush".

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

Even a mistake is better than nothing.

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.

A group of owls is called a parliament, wisdom, or study.

A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.

And seeing ignorance is the curse of God Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.

I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.

But no matter how many fish in the sea, itd be so empty without me.

Everything moves a little quicker in Los Angeles.

Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people.

When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.