When you are measuring life, you are not living it.

At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my most minimal breathing. There was nothing left to say. Not about this. Not about anything.

People often belittle the place where they were born.

All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.

The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.

In heaven, there is no judgment, but rather an opportunity to examine our lives-who we touched, the choices we made, and the consequences of those choices.

There is nothing more fun than hanging around with friends and banging on instruments. Anyone who has ever done it knows that this is true.