“The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.”

You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.

It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

Everything that comes together falls apart.

You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.

You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

Whatever you’re worried about, you’re bigger than the worries.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.

What’s the meaning of life? Other people.

Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

We all use the future to escape the present.

We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?

What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.

Everyone just talks about values that they don’t have themselves.

I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.

You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

The human being is the enemy of the jungle.

A lot of people can’t handle watching other people succeed in life.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.