.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..

It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.

It’s more interesting to be out in the world. than to see it reflected in the mirror.

Negativity is never an option

that one’s gone, and this little guy’s almost out of commission.” His goal in life, Nathaniel tells me, is to figure out how to replace the strings. But he got used to playing imperfect instruments...

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren’t worth reading.