On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.

We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.

Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.

It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?"I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

I [Jacob Hunt, Aspie] see it as the next step of evolution: I cannot take away your sadness, so why should I acknowledge it?

What do you want? What do you want?...To see the world burn, and a new one be born from the ashes…

I find beauty in melancholy.

Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.

If I had a lover who wanted to hear from me every day, I would break with him.

A genuinely humble person humbles himself even before those who should be humbled by his presence.

There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life.

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.