Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next day. I simply have to close my eyes, and wait until tomorrow in order to find out.

At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself.

Trying to get stuff straight right at the end when you never cared all through your life. Trying to get into heaven on the affirmative action plan.

In the midst of your struggles, you WILL find a reason to keep going. Don’t give up!

Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

America doesn't have an abortion problem - it has an unwanted pregnancy problem, and an abortion symptom.

Thankfully I've been quite lucky in my career, but it's always good to re-evaluate things and think about what else you want to do.

It's the same old story, all you think about is money.

Set up a life you don't need to escape from.

Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well For us You just move your hands upon the wall