If I didn't laugh, absurdity would get the best of me.
You don't love someone because it's the logical thing to do.
A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else.
It's during a storm that the best songs get written.
Self-consciousness is hell.
Some stories end in despair, some begin there
A scale can tell what a body weighs, but not its value.
We are all nameless inside.
To hate everything is to be wounded by everything.
If the sky falls, there'll be a bigger sky behind it.
Thinking always deceives us when it becomes a substitute for action.
We usually fail at the things most important to us, precisely because they are so important to us.
The flea that doubts doesn't jump nearly as high
We put ourselves through hell and that is hell.
Trust the one with experience, not the one with ideas.
Experience is true, but not the lessons it teaches.
The profoundest thing writing teaches us is how much we contradict ourselves.
When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too.
I don't believe in love. I love.
No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.