“You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.”

“Love is not always a lightning bolt. Sometimes it is a creeping vine. It grows slowly until suddenly it is all that there is in the world.”

“Next to music, beer was best.”

“Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself. ”

“Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.”

“Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.”

“Yeah, but broken isn't the same as unfixable.”

“The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.”