Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

I'd rather die my way than live yours.

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing.

He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.

Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.

Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it: like eating ice cream so fast on a hot day you get a splitting headache.

The four sweetest words in the English language — 'You wore me down.'

It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.

Your life is a Fellini film, lacking only Anita Ekberg with a cat on her head.

Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?

I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

Trust your first instinct.

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

Racism and sexism are not "problems" or "topics." They are ways of defining reality and living our lives that most of us learned along with learning how to tie our shoes and how to drink from a cup.

Objectives are not commands; they are commitments.