Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel.

I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.

People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.

The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.

Were you planning to jump off?"“Not on pizza day. Never on pizza day, which is one of the better days of the week.” I should mention that I am a brilliant deflector.

I run until time stops. Until my mind stops.

For a minute, I can feel it: the sense of peace as my mind goes quiet, like I'm already dead. I am weightless and free. Nothing and no one to fear, not even myself.

She waves her arms at the world. "It's all just time filler until we die.

Angry at him for leaving without a word, angry at myself for being so easy to leave and for not being enough to make him want to stick around.

I love the thrill of impending, weightless doom...

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

Education is the means to end, not the end itself. Education should not become another status quo, or silo, or the end.

I knew that the pain I felt now was here to stay. In many forms. Through many nights.

Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.

That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.

I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about making money.

The whole creation is so tenderly balanced - this manifests the mastery of the Creator.

Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton.