I realized I loved him after everything went wrong so I wallowed in self-pity and prayed I could wake up.

They always come back, but we don’t always answer.

I stopped writing in the obvious. I wrote how I saw it and if they don’t understand it, that’s fine.

I didn’t fear you. I feared us. I feared what could have been. I feared what could be. I feared the connection we had between each other. The toxicity because I could grasp the danger.

We grow apart because we grow in different stages and not all of our stages align.

If I had amnesia, I know I would fall in love with you all over again.

The fact that neither of us made sense was the beauty of it.

I think we might’ve met in a past life. You know, one of those you pass and think, wow you’re kind of beautiful. Just one of those.

I romanticized him until he was the perfect being. A soul so beautiful, but so immensely evil too.

To fall in love with pain is to fall in love with art.

You didn’t understand the poem, but that was because it wasn’t for you. It was for me to understand the pain you put me through.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth, " and so it goes away. Puzzling.

I truly believe that before I retire from public office I'll be voting for a woman for president.

I don't know enough to have any regrets

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking makes progress from one place to another; worry remains static.

I'm working on a new pitch. It's called a strike.

Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

[The Republicans] have come up with nothing. They say repeal and replace. That has alliteration.

We have a moral obligation to make sure the people who are being required to work have the opportunity to work. We must make sure the jobs are there.