Tell yourself you’re dead, the way Matt does, so the past can’t hurt you.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.

Honestly, Bob: how do you carve a scream?

I don't think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities.

Apollo?” I guessed…He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.”A god named Fred?

New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years; we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me.

Our desire is the warmth in our life, it's not a blanket.

Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise.

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.

Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible. Once you start believing in yourself, your dreams take shape. The more you believe, the more you achieve.

Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more.

We now had impressive evidence that low protein intake could markedly decrease enzyme activity and prevent dangerous carcinogen binding to DNA.