“Last night at work, I went into the bathroom and chopped my hair off.  Then I decided not to take myself too seriously anymore.”

“It’s all about love in the end. I just can’t get away from it. And I know you’ll never want me, but it doesn’t really matter. ”

“I think it is easy to be consumed by what we’re doing. It is easy to forget the nice things we do for others because we’re so busy trying to look out for ourselves. But thank you, elderly couple, for remembering me because there have been countless nights I have left that store feeling forgotten.”

“Just when I think my identity is shifting from a liquid to a more permanent solid form, it slips through my fingers and down the drain, like water running over my cupped hands in a sink.”

“Now that I’m 21 I’ve been looking at my reflection in the mirror and looking back at old pictures of me. I have changed. Now I know that this is what I am going to be, this is what I am going to look like.”

“There’s a story of two brothers split by [the Berlin Wall], where what once was a minute’s walk and a hop over a tiiiiny creek, in order for the East German brother to visit the West (vice versa was not allowed), it took a six hour train-and-bus journey. I hopped over the little creek, and I touched the East side of the piece of wall still standing. And it was really humbling, how easy it was for me, and how impossible it was to East Germans for 24 years.”

“My problem with politics is that I’m not willng to compromise my ideals for reality.”

“Sometimes I feel like I just suck at being a human.”

“Let the exposures continue!”

“Once when I was a child I found a snail. The snail told me to come to his nest in the grass and we would talk and laugh and dance and sing. I came to the snails house around 6 pm like he told me, but he never answered his door then and he never has since that night.”

“im just a mailorder witness. just pretend. keep holding your breath. let go of your heart. discard all your tainted victories. forget me. do this in rembrance of no one. stop locking your own window its so much easier to climb out if you don’t have to break it. leave him for me?”

“Nothing very interesting has happened in Jade’s life. Other than marrying the pope, inventing computers, and adding various bits of junk to her trunk, Jade’s life has been pretty inconsequential. But she’s still really cool. Oh yeah, and she’s also a Sphinx.”

“Sometimes just a night of cards, laughing and rice can be the key to complete happiness.”

“I think the reason that I’m so drawn inward /shy, isn’t that I’m afraid of people, it’s that I afraid of confronting myself and living up to my expectations.”

“What is up with those Sea World billboards? You know what I mean: the giant close-up of the whale’s eye and that dramatic set of marching orders, those mandates that seem to rival The Ten Commandments themselves: Come. See. Believe. Believe? Really? Believe what? I already believe in whales.”

“Days, passions, nordic daydreams, and other embarrassments of the self-employed.”

“I wish I could will myself to stop breathing. I’m not melodramatic. I’ve just had one too many disappointments. I can’t take another one. Not one this big. I am such a failure.”

“My, how the world has changed. This is the poignant and unforgettable day for my generation. I can say where I was when I found out. I recall sitting on my couch sweating with tears streaming down my cheeks. Sometimes you just know that life will never be the same.”

“The life and times of a guy and his family who are setting out to travel the world in service to their country.”

“i’ll never understand why people who seem to loathe me bother to take the time to read my updates/journals, and then take the time to respond to them. as i’ve said in the past, if i really loathed someone and what they stood for i would kind of do my best to avoid them.”