She smiled for the first time, and he almost had to look away, as if something that nice didn’t belong in such a glum and gray place, as if he had no right to look at her expression.

Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story.

I've always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities.

I just...feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.

Just follow me and run like your life depends on it. Because it does.

You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!

I've been shucked and gone to heaven.

Oh, I'm good. Seriously, after all these years, you'd think I would stop amazing myself. But here I am, still doing it.

...You'd think the little part about them supposedly killing us would be the attention getter.

i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone

Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

Screw pretty. I'd rather be strong. Pretty fades over time. Strength gets you through the bad shit.

Fear of falling resist you from rising

grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.

Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.

I always forgive, but I never forget.

I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!