We're only three class sessions in and I'm already behind? And to hear it from him? This buttoned-up Bible-thumper I can't get out of my head?

To her, not packing our lunches every day or joining the PTA is a feminist rallying cry.

His voice is both low and quiet, and it has this hypnotic rhythm to it. I wonder whether someday he'll give sermons with that voice, whether he'll throw down judgement with that voice.

High school is such an incestuous little pool.

Everything feels yes.

I am a monster beneath him, with arching hips, an octopus with hands everywhere at once. I don't think anything in the history of time has felt this good.

Maybe I'm crying because I'm terrified that he's come here to do more damage, to reactivate what I feel only to let me down easy again, missionary style.

My brain is such a traitorous beast.

Carry cheerfulness as well as positive vibes with you and leave a trail of joy wherever you go.

Luke would always remember the day of his drowning

I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

We have to be able to ask questions in order to answer them.

If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get cozier.

I think if you get the opportunity to try and become the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world and you turn your back on it, then you're a bit of a fraud.

The same ten minutes that magazines urge me to use for sit-ups and triceps dips, I used for sobbing.

I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the primary purpose of Ruby language.