An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind, " Coral puts in quietly.

Live free or die.

Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.

He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.

We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.

And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.

For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go back. I'm not certain of anything anymore. I don't know what will happen--

This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.

That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.

Something big happened over the weekend. Something that affects everybody, all over the world. George Clooney got married.

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

The gospel is not just the illustration (even the best illustration) of an idea. It is the story of actions by which the human situation is irreversibly changed.

A little showbiz never hurt anyone.

Every great team that I've been on, the offensive linemen was the bell cows of the whole team.

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.