“There are dozens of ways to give people a bad time if you are in your own home and they are only visitors.”

“Visitors at the zoo indulge in transports of delight at the way an elephant reaches for an apple with it's trunk....but give not a moments thought to the ineffable capabilities of their own hands.”

“Don't you think it's time you got out of your own way? Time you stop ending things before they start, time you stopped imagining the worst-case scenario, and giving in without a fight?""And if things turn out as bad as I imagine they might?""Then you chalk it up to shit happening and get on with your life.”

“They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.”

“traveling - it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.”

“the people around you are mirrors of your life- only spend time with those who reflect the good more than the bad”