There was almost a flicker of humanity in the man. The kind of human who pulled wings off flies as a kid, but still human.

Men don't ask other men if they're getting home OK, they just assume that beneath the frail, weak exterior lurks a muscle-building kung fu master fearless of ever being mugged.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but paranoia was what tied it up in a sack and buried it in wet concrete.

Our parting was like a stalemate….Neither of us won. Yet both of us lost.And worse still … that unshakable feeling that nothing was ever really finished.

I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.

You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.

I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.

I'm not like anybody else. I'm like an American princess.

I came back once or twice a year to visit my family, and then I would take off again. In the beginning, I think everybody thought I would get over it and get it out of my system. And I never did.

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will be worthy to receive greater.