I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.I don't want it to win.

You're like a grey sky. You're beautiful, even though you don't want to be.

Sometimes I wonder if my heart is like a black hole--it's so dense that there's no room for light, but that doesn't mean it can't still suck me in.

I will be stronger than my sadness.

..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative.

He can't make me love him when he's going to leave me.

Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.

Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.

Something inside me clicks. It's like I've spent my whole life fiddling with a complicated combination only to discover I was toying with the wrong lock.

Do you believe in other universes? Do you think there's another dimension where we're happy?

I can feel everything. And I want to keep feeling everything. Even the painful, awful, terrible things. Because feeling things is what lets us know that we're alive.

A thing worse than dying with nothing

Without an error of reasoning, there should be no doubt that each of us needs to be loved.

Humour is the only test of gravity and gravity of humour for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.

The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril

In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player.

Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.