… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah’s Witness: uninvited and tireless.

Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup.

When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.

Amen' is like the Send button on an email.

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.

Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.

Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

Don't be afraid to have nothing.

People that are scared of the dark have great imaginations and are my kind of people. Those who see nothing in the darkness are boring.

Nothing is as good as coming into the new year with zeal, hope and positive mind.

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Words are a human way of trying to describe things. But they're much more of interference than they are a help in the world of enlightenment.

I want the music to be ambiguous. Its tone gives you a context in which to start visualizing what you're feeling with the music.

You should know the ins and outs [of the marriage]. So it was nice to see a little bit of background.

Because other people are fools, must you be so too?

Success doesn't stop when you get there

A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.