I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

We accept the love we think we deserve.

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.

To be able to see a magic, you need to have a mind that can detect that magic!

She was smooth and beautiful under his rough, callused hands-an amorous balm to soothe the ugliness of war.

All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

You now have permission to be strong and healthy and calm and relaxed. There's no place else to go. There's nothing else to do.

I don't mind being alone when I'm surrounded by people, I just hate being alone when I'm alone.

By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a view of the American character as that of any critic in our history.

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.

Que le Dieu qui nous tue nous vienne en aide! God who kills us, come to our rescue!

It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.

I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.