Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this..

I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrib….

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them..

We are unusual and tragic and alive..

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even….

Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot..

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to..

Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring..

You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us different….

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?.

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange..

A funny thing happened on the way to utopia: We've turned into this surveillance society and become a race of spies, where we track our kids and we t….

And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave co….

The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us..

Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on t….

My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not sto….

We see the beauty within and cannot say no..

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves..

Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came from a smelly and ignorant place in me, ….

Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that they might ev….

We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day..