I guess we’re all guilty at some point of failing to appreciate the small things, because when we use a broad brush to paint our exemplary lives, we splatter ourselves with ignorance.

He might not be here, but the day he misses an opportunity to party is the day Jocelyn Wildenstein is considered the paragon of beauty.

The ocean fascinates me too. How it connects everything and everyone, but at the same time it divides us. It’s a mystery, full of life and possibilities. It’s just…phenomenal.

The void inside me starts to fill, but my heart has holes, and whatever it holds will run out, leaving me empty once again.

It’s all about that cosy, homey feeling, the one you leave behind when you travel across the world.

Ever since her diagnosis, she’s been fading like a light bulb with cancer’s hand on the rotary dimmer.

Have you ever loved someone so much that even when they chip pieces away from you, you still try to give them what’s left? I know I have… I know I do.

I can hear the tick tick tick in my head: A tripwire ready to explode in fury. And then, in my mind, I start to count down from ten…any moment now.

Many nights I watch the sun set. Many nights I watch the moon. They fascinate me. They’re the only things I get to share with everyone: the stars, the moon, the universe.

It’s like I’m on a roller-coaster ride, but I’m not allowed to get off. I’m strapped to the seat, and within eyesight the unfinished twirl of the track swirls into the air.

Since her diagnoses she has been fading like a light bulb with cancer’s hand on the rotary dimmer.

Length of a straight line is determined by the two tiny dots on both ends

It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.

People don't realize, or maybe they've forgotten, that there was a time in history when standup comedy wasn't something that you had to hide your kids' ears from.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

Acting is not talking, it's living off the other fellow!!!