“I think the responsibility of writers is to convey the feelings that exist in the moment, the moment of that sharp and immediate pang of sour smiles when your heart suddenly starts pumping ice through your veins and becomes difficult and visual perception takes on the appearance of cinematographer on Cops, with unsteady frames and jostling scenes, running through a backyard chasing perpetrators.”

“Donkeys...I've decided that donkeys are universally cute. Really cute. So cute that donkeys defy any arguments of preferences being relative. When you pet their noses, they blink their eyes and bashfully look away as if embarrassed. And when donkeys hee-haw, they have their mouths and lips curled up as if they are smiling. Boyfriend and girlfriend donkeys rest their heads on each other's rumpt and fan each other's faces with their tails. And kid donkeys, the size of an average dog, trot around with big smiles on their faces and floppy, dangly, long donkey ears. Too cute.”

“Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.”

“You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.”

“Every breath of air and ray of sunshine,All ingenuous thoughts and creativity,Every dried up drop of blood from battleAnd the movement of every living creature through the winds of eternity have been exhausted to bring you to this very moment in time... Do something with it.”

“I didn't know how...deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through your veins your whole life.”

“Time doesn't matter if the dead still live in your heart”