“I was eavesdropping, as I often do”

“A window to jump into, not out of”

“The DMV is the great equalizer—this I have decided with certainty”

“It’s hard to understand a game without rules”

“How can you be painfully young and woefully old at the same time?”

“Being alive is watching joy and waiting till they sing for you…”

“When did we stop telling the truth?”

“There is a particular olfactory genius to being alive.”

“Merna didn’t understand that the piano was his couch, table, and pew at the altar of some divine and magical power.”

“The fork, the vase, the hammer”

“Fluid one, less frequently solid, what form did they ask of you today?”

“The sky is black and full of stars. I don’t remember what a sky full of stars looks like, so I ask you to remind me”

“August has become this sort of scratchy, loose-necked sweater that I won’t take off because it looked good on me in January”

“My life is spent searching for things to wish on. I don’t care what it is. Or even what it looks like. It’s about what it feels like”

“Seeing someone with their eyes closed, however, feels like being let in on a secret they trust you enough to keep”

“He is a man of separation…”

“When determining whether you see the glass as half empty or half full, I encourage you to use anything but a glass- the answer leans half-empty, and you know it”

“Perhaps the first real mistake I ever made was forgetting about Horse E. Poo”