It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.

Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.

I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.

The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.