I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.

Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.

Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else.

Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?

Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?