Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.

She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.

I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

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.