You hear a lot about the benefits of insanity or whatever - like, Dr. Karen Singh had once told me this Edgar Allan Poe quote: "The question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence." I guess she was trying to make me feel better, but I find mental disorders to be vastly overrated. Madness, in my admittedly limited experience, is accompanied by no superpowers; being mentally unwell doesn't make you loftily intelligent any more than having the flu does.

When yu say nasty things about people, you shouldnever say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honest take those back...

If you dont' live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good.

It was not the way Curve smelled that Colin liked - not exactly. It was the way the air smelled just as Lindsey began to jog away from him. The smell of perfume left behind. There's not a word for that in English, but Colin knew the French word: sillage. What Colin liked about Curve was not its smell on the skin but its sillage, the fruity sweet smell of its leaving.

Tal vez hay algo que tienes miedo de decir , o alguien a quien tengas miedo de amar, o un lugar al que tienes miedo de ir. Te va a doler. Te va a doler porque importa.

The poor Sufi dressed in rags walked into a jewelry store owned by a rich merchant and asked him, "Do you know how you’re going to die." And the Sufi said, "I do.""How?" asked the merchant.And the Sufi lay down, crossed his arms, said, "Like this," and died, whereupon the merchant promptly gave up his store to live a life of poverty in pursuit of the kind of spiritual wealth the dead Sufi had acquired.

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?