And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired.

There are a million ways to lose someone you love.

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

The darkness is coming now god dammit!

Phonogram is the memory of a long period in my life through a surprisingly small filter. Those characters are basically the golem who accompanied me on that decade and a half.

Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger.

Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.

Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)

My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.

No one can ever help loving anyone.