And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself.

If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.

And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.

I wondered what things what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.

We're living tragedies, just passing time 'til our funerals.

How many beers do y'all think it takes before one internationally scientist turns to another and says, 'Dude, bet you twenty bucks I can levitate a frog with a magnet?' ' Sam drawled.

Fine! You guys can all be beautiful snowflakes! I'm gonna go over here and be an awkward snowflake!

Still here, Faulkner?" Luke sneered."Still doing that terrible impression of Draco Malfoy?" I asked.

Maybe I’d already guessed that the physics of us didn’t defy any laws of gravity, and with her, there was always an equal and opposite reaction.

I compete every moment, and my competition is only with myself.

Break the lockup of thoughts and live free.

Growth is achieved when truth is revealed.

The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination.

Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.

It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.

Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.

Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.