The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you'll think "they'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion.

Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.

I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry!

I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation.

The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. i have to believe that’s a sign.