My mind floats like ash. I blame myself most cruelly.

My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.

Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.

I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly.

In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.

Why is edamame always ready to expire? It´s so urgent for a vegetable. Edamame. It sounds like an assisted form of suicide. Is there an advertising concept in this?

I used to loathe ambivalence now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.

The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.

They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.

Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.

I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

Success is doing everything you could the right way and saying man, I did the best I could - that's success.

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

I'm very open in terms of sharing bits about my life, but I think it's very easy to get a distorted sense of who anyone is through social media.

Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

Anyhow, even though I have this home theater, I love going out to the movies. Movies are meant to be experienced together.

[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

Most choices are driven by immediate results.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.