We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.

The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the English language. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

The thing about being irresponsible is it's only cute till you are about twenty-two or so, then it becomes a liability. One day you wake up under a pizza box, the television blaring in your bedroom, the laundry piled up over what might be a bedside table, and you ask yourself: 'How did my life get like this? Why don't people like me? Didn't I have a cat and what is that smell?'