What is bad for the heart is good for art.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

I have to go, " I say, helpless.What makes you say the opposite of what every cell in your body wants you to say?

it's okay to be addicted to beauty, " Mom says, all dreamy. "Emerson said 'beauty is God's handwriting.

Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.

The worst thing that could ever happen to Noah has happened. He's become normal.

SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air

And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown. Like Cezanne painted them. Impressionist eyes.

With inner peace, you are undisturbed by outside turbulence.

Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.

The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

I think I'm a person who is proud of my [Christian] faith and where I come from.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

One does not consider style, because style is.

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.

Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final enlightenment.