Trains are all the ways you miss each other-wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.

Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.

We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core. Without them, we are empty.

Standing up for what's right is a huge burden to bear. It's normal to have some doubt.

Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.

As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.

When someone you love has died, there is a certain grace period during which you can get away with murder. Not literal murder, but pretty much anything else.

Do you need anything?" she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? "Nah, I'm good.

Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don't enter anymore.

Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.

Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.

Not allowing the mind its freedom to think and find the purpose of life takes away the vision to focus.

He was clearly used to sucking in the universe, examining it, then bending it to his will.

If we want to grow, the way to break a pattern of negativity is to face anything negative with love.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

he was the monster that stalked nightmare and they both knew it

The script - and a good one - tells you everything that you need to know.

If no words come, you can always give him the finger.

I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.