I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another.

In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.

My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.

...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.

My favorite songs change every year.

You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.

The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.

I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.

The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to.

Food, a French man told me once, is the first wealth. Grow it right, and you feel insanely rich, no matter what you own.

I think that today, faith drives so much of our politics, that I thought, "If you don't talk about it, you are missing a whole big part of what is going on politically."

The Internet has leveled the investment playing field.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress.

Earlier in my career, fans weren't a big consideration for me.

All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.

We raise our voices in holy gladness to celebrate the victory of the risen Christ over the terrible forces of death.

I've always just wished that maybe someday people would care about the words that I wrote.