I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.

Breakfast seemed to be a good time for throwing your emotions around. Jodie said that at this place emotions were like Frisbees – people just tossed them around all day long like they were at...

When do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?” I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. “I don’t know,” I said. “Tomorrow.

There are worst things in life than kissing boys

I’d rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty.

When I walked into the house, I went in search of one of my dad’s bottles. Not that they were that hard to find. He hid bottles all over the house. I knew where they...

Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.

Try it again,” I said. “Kiss me.””No,” he said.”Kiss me.””No,” And then he smiled. “You kiss me.”I placed my hand on the back of his neck. I pulled him toward me. And kissed him. I...

Wow, a world without darkness. How beautiful was that?

Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It’s an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don’t see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up...

The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.

I have this idea stuck in my head that you have to be born beautiful in order to dream beautiful things. God didn’t write beautiful on my heart. I’m stuck with all my bad dreams....

When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending.

I wished it was raining,” he said.”I don’t need the rain,” I said. “I need you.

Do you think it will always be this way?””What?””I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?”I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. “I don’t...

Talking is fantastically overrated. Too many people do too much of it. It stuns the hell out of me how so many people like to talk. Sharkey, for example. If talking is so good for...

I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.

What did being connected to the world get you? It got you sadder. Look, the world is not sane. If you stay connected to an insane world, well, you just go crazy. This is not...

If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.

People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.

I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.