“Let the inner child play with you.”

The people who love you will see through the walls that you’ve built up and will love you even more.

Suffering alone is the best way to destroy yourself.

Messed up people even see the beauty in all the shitty places.

Use your voice.

We have never been so connected but still feeling so alone.

When your life standard comes down from being happy to just survive through the day.

I rather fall in love over and over again and get hurt all over again than feeling dead inside.

He reminded me of all the things I always wanted that I had just forgotten.

The things that made me feel dead, made me feel alive again.

When I love, I love hard. It almost killed me the first time.

Choosing myself, knowing I’ll be fine.

I prefer to suffer alone because then I can’t hurt anyone.

Don’t feed yourself up with personal growth tips when you are not ready for it.

The only person that needs to believe in you, is you.

Write clean and dirty.

Healing is important but that does not mean your life has to stop.

I was a funky kid.

I grew up all around the Bay, but I spent most of my time in Hayward and I loved it. It was a really big apartment community, there was a whole bunch of kids.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.

Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I’m not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.