After was better. Before was only there so After could happen.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

It is gracious to have old people full of vitality and endowed with wisdom in our society.

If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind.

Everyone in the world should have a trench coat, and there should be a trench coat for everyone in the world. It does not matter your age; it doesn't matter your gender.

And Yale is November, crisp and energetic.

I felt like my bubble gum card collection had come to life.

People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you.

By any means necessary.

It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.

The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God's compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.

Love is everlasting, ever growing, and ever giving if you allow it.