What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.

He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.

. . . breathing slowly and rubbing his palm against his chest as if to soothe his heart.

There was something scary and anxiety-inducing about being in a space where nothing seemed to be forbidden to him, where everything was offered to him and nothing was asked in return

This isn't fair, he would think in those moments. This isn't friendship. It's something, but it's not friendship. He felt he had been hustled into a game of complicity, one he never intended to play.

And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.

He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.

My phone rang, and although it wasn't a sinister time of night, and although nothing had happened that I would later see as foreshadowing, I knew, I knew.

It's a good story, ' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.''Please, ' I said.And then he did.

He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult it was to end a friendship.

Thank god he wasn't a writer, or he'd have nothing to write about.

With you, it's different. It's like a coming home.

Impossible is only an issue of the mind.

In life we are separated by boundaries political, cultural, ethical, linguistical and psychical. But in death we are all united, for all afterlife is similarly unknown

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.

Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, 'Do or do not. There is no try.'

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

The man committing suicide controls the moment of his death by executing a back flip.

Argh... I could be better with my time. I like to be punctual, but I could be better.

God who preceded all existence is a refuge.