consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.

Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.

They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.

Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.

In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.

if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.

I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.

War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.

Vision is tomorrow's reality expressed as an idea today.

If someone criticizes my child it's gonna hurt me a little bit, but it's my child, you know, and I love it regardless.

The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.

High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Reality is for people that lack imagination.

Do not place hope in finding a secret technique. Polish the mind through ceaseless training; that is the key to effective techniques.

With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.