“You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need”

“Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.”

“Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)”

“You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.”

“A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.”

“People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.”

“This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever.”

“The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.”

“All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.”

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

“The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it.”

“How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied–or, for that matter, awarded–because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.”

“Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. ”

“I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it–and that’s all I got.”

“When all else fails, there’s always delusion.”