“Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.”

“I had a dream that Mark Wahlberg and his wife were our neighbors and we had dance parties in our living room and drank wine from Solo cups. I remember being confused as to why they lived in a regul...”

“Life's a battlefield, and we remain loyal to those who fight for us; those who'd die for us.”

“Some women feel the need to act like they're never scared, needy or hurt; like they're as hardened as a man. I think that's dishonest. It's ok to feel delicate sometimes. Real beauty is in the frag...”

“When I was just a cute little caterpillar, you loved me. So I became a butterfly so you would never leave.”

“I've had these demons for years, maybe for my whole life. Then you came along to provoke them, expose them, and eventually rid me of them, because I believe you're the only human that can.”

“When everything seems to be going wrong with you, you must remember the airplane takes off against the wind”

“There is truly no other place bearing so much love as airports.”

“I continuously see myself on an airplane that has unlimited fuel. I go here and there but can't stop. Always flying over my destination. I've come to realize I must jump off with my parachute on of...”

“Ya got cigarettes? she asks. Yes, I say,I got cigarettes. Matches? she asks.Enough to burn Rome. Whiskey?Enough whiskey for a Mississippi River of pain. You drunk? Not yet.”

“For one more time, he decided to give away smoking.And then, she happened one more time in his head.”

“Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company, those would have most scandalized her own mother.”

“Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.”

“There are no crash courses on enlightenment, you only crash in a course like that.”

“Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.”