“When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out.

But it's a lie.”

“If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.”

“Killing people is easier than it should be.” Dad put on his beret. “Staying alive is harder.”

“Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.”

“It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our loves, and our passions in the marketplace of life's heartfelt transactions.”

“The time has come, everybody lie down so you won't get hurt when the sun bursts.”

“Art hurts. Art urges voyages—
and it is easier to stay at home.”

“It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand.”

“Maybe people only ask you how you're doing
'Cos that's easier than letting on how little they could care.”

“People can cry much easier than they can change.”