What we invent, we become.
An aphorism needn’t be true, but it should sound true.
Good conversation is the equivalent of shared emotion.
Rivers are lucky. They can only move forward.
All the great novels are about obsession and people who are obsessed.
Memories are never as true as the things one forgets.
Don’t stare out the window; run through the fields.
Any casual observer can tell at a glance I’m not the person I think I am.
On the blank page all things are possible.
There is no “the way things are.” Every day is different, and you live it differently.
No one really remembers anything five minutes after it happens.
Sometimes just breathing is enough.
What you’re afraid to think must be the truth.
Cities get built out of poet’s dreams.
The person with an itch can’t understand why everyone’s not scratching.
Truth is what’s left when you run out of excuses.
Our thoughts deceive us more than our senses.
When you’re happy, you just are-you don’t think about it.
People think by creating rules they will create order. But the opposite is true: rules create discord, friction, chaos.
We are given this beautiful life, this beautiful world, and we destroy it with ingratitude and hate.