"I'm not perfect. I'm not even good. But I'm trying."

"I was a man who had lost his way in a jungle of books."

"I'm not a writer, I'm a drunk."

"I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't."

"The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."