I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.

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Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

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I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

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The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

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let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences

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I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

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