Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. - Hannah Schneider

But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars.

It’s what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything we want it is one day to leave us. It’s the something unseen, the lurking devastation, the darkness that gives our lives dimension.

It’s got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no.

It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’.

Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.

... suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That's when all the real things were said.