It's just high school, man. Those guys are just high school guys, and in ten years they're going to be working for people like me. I know that. I just have to make it through two more years.

Where are you?" I wheeze into the floor. "Where did you go?

I understand now that nobody could have saved Ty but Ty. There’s no one else to blame. Not you. Not me. Ty was holding all the cards.

But my anger was a slippery thing, like a fish I was trying to keep hold of, and it wiggled out of my grasp.

Joy is a perception of elation which keeps us moving with life.

One, don’t wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it’s going?

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.

If you're lost, you might need to swim against the tide.

You're only as old as your spine.

It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations

My life really has been one long extravaganza.

There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural.

Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.

Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.