healthy, adj. There are times when I'm alone that I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are my thoughts and my small acts of creation and my ability to go or do whatever I want to go or do. I am myself, and that is the point. Pairing is a social construction. It is by no means necessary for everyone to do it. Maybe I'm better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it's time to go.

Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse.

His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.

It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.

That strange, twisted, torn love. That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right.

I can honestly say Ive never thought for a second about whether a character reflects poorly on any group. All that matters to me is that the character is true to my belief in who he or she is.

Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah