Being determined delinquents, Peyton and I jumped the barricades and wandered around the dilapidated interior.

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.

Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.

It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do.

A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting.

Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves.

If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.

This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?

It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded.

She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity

Careful.The fall is quick, steep, and permanent.

The above proposition is occasionally useful.

Once a Altman's film has been in a town, it kind of wrecks the town. It doesn't even matter what the film is because, suddenly, everybody's hip and stores start doubling prices or whatever.

Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.

God is love? Not bloody likely.

What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward.

Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others.

Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.

Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.