Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.

Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup.

When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.

Amen' is like the Send button on an email.

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.

Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

Don't be afraid to have nothing.

Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.

Sometimes I hate this place. I mean I really, truly, hate it. It offends my narrow-minded and provincial sensibilities regarding good universe design.

The sunshine of the mind.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to rethink how learning is organised if we are to reap the rewards.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.

You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.

So much universe, and so little time.