For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.

Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him eye to eye and said, 'I already have, mister.

As someone who struggles with anxiety and cowardice, as we all do, I’m profoundly inspired by. . . . Full-on commitment to wonder, to wonder as a response to anguish or difficulty. It makes everything a puzzle, right? A catastrophe is nothing but a puzzle with the volume of drama turned up very high.