“I don't want to die without any scars.”

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”

“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”

“Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.”

“Every last minute of my life has been preordained and I'm sick and tired of it. How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: the Italian Renaissance penciled in for right...”

“Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.”

“It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”

“The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life. Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like...”