Being with boys is more dangerous for me than killing a cricket or having a bird fly into the house.

I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.

Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever

She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

The first thing I notice is the sky, so full of blue and the kind of brilliant white clouds that make you ecstatic to have eyes. Nothing can go wrong under this sky.

I'm layering away: sauce, noodles, I belong to you, cheese, sauce, my heart is yours, noodles, cheese, I hear your soul in your music, cheese, cheese, CHEESE.

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

And of course, the answer came to me in the same way Jesus comes to those who drink in trailers: as an epiphany.

Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

To paraphrase the great Will Rogers, El Rusho never met a pharmacist he did not like.

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.

Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.

I can't pass on an acting career to my kids. But I'm going to try to juggle both.

A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.

I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don't fear Him.