“When it comes to the core of who we are, it takes incredible effort to shift more than one standard deviation from the mean of your life.”

“For some strange reason I get some of my brightest ideas on the toilet seat, with my clothes on.”

“Dreaming is easy. Creativity is a lot of work.”

“Three people I take their words with a grain of salt: a person in love, a drunk and an insurance agent. They never really mean exactly what they say.”

“My son hit his head on a couch and pushed it away. He never went near that couch again. It is amazing what and 1 year old boy can teach you about life.”

“For every writer, there is a challenge of time that is only magnified in the solitude of the work.”

“You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection.”

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”

“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end...”

“I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me.”

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone wont either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are...”

“Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you”

“To reciprocate Gods love is to have his love nature”

“If you can't change your mind, you can't change anything.”

“Optimists think badly, but live well.”