I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger!

They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these guys very well. ... Then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity; but he always does that.

Your fear is the most boring thing about you.

Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.

Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.

Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him eye to eye and said, "I already have, mister.

I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?