The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.

We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.

A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.

I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things.