“Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.”

“When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't...”

“I can no longer cry. I groan a few times. Through the slits that are my eyes, I stare at my shoes, at the gray swirls of the concrete floor, at the bright orange lid of my syringe. And I realizeits...”

“Observe the things you are instintively attracted to, they are often linked to your purpose and path in life.”

“Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skillslike intelligence and physical prowessbecause men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at ...”

“People will sometimes find themselves attracted to others, that's just who they are. It's what they do with that attraction that defines them.”

“My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.”

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they ...”

“Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiti...”

“It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happiness is easier to get used to than despair. The second time you have a root beer float, for instanc...”