I've ruined my eyes, I've ruined my health from my studiousness!

Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.

Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.

I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection at all times. I forget how dangerously reduced some men can feel when that basic ability has been stripped from them. I forget how much that matters to men, what it represents.

Let your conscience be your guide.