If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.
In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...
You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life. After they were gone? That was all you thought about. Day and night.
They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.
Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.
I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.
Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.