All our good and bad memories—they were like our B-side diaries. They were like those songs on old dusty punk albums that no one listened to anymore.

There are moments in our lives that define the people we will become in the future, like a symptom before an ailment, or the catalyst before the cure.

The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody.

Popularity is like a girl in class that you can't ignore. She give you eyes when no one looks then turns to her friends and laughs some more.

Society gets by from the help of its citizens.

I guess what's most important is that we chose to live with our hearts open and to let our experiences show us the way towards our brightest days.

Couples swayed and embraced to the beat as the singer's vocals soared above a group of confused teenagers and twenty-something's.

What were we, but kids with apartments and jobs anyway?

Christopher was wearing a suit and adorned make-up. As long as I had known him, he never wore a suit or make-up. The look of him defenseless to his appearance saddened me.

Dream-start with dream. Start tonight-become who you want-dream big!" He became animated at this point, "No money needed for dreams. Dreams are free.

In times such as these, life often begs us to seek answers when in reality there are only questions available.

The best way to worship God is to honor His people

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.

We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of. We start blaming them.

Just breathe. Sometimes you're only a few breaths away from feeling better.

I will fight for America till the day I drop.

I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss.

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.

Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.