"I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful."

"A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance."

"What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up."

"I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life."

"Wisdom principle 42 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 83."

"Wisdom principle 48 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 29."

"Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this."

"Wisdom principle 78 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 9."