Breakfast seemed to be a good time for throwing your emotions around. Jodie said that at this place emotions were like Frisbees – people just tossed them around all day long like they were at a park.

The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.

Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.

I wish I didn’t have a heart that God wrote Sad on.

But the thing is, I didn't make my friends happy and they didn't make me happy. All we did was get stoned out of our minds. That didn't have anything to do with happiness.

I’m not a good kid. Yeah, look, I’m just a piece of paper with the word sad and a bunch of cuss words written on it.A lousy piece of paper. That’s me.A piece of paper that’s waiting to be torn up.

I’d rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty.

What is it with you and that book?"Rafael laughed. "We have a personal relationship.

One of my roommates, Rafael, he's an expert on monsters. Not that he talks about them. I can just tell. People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.

People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.

Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.

We can do away with ignorance, if we take it upon ourselves to encourage each other to use our intelligence.

Living the Christian life means striving for holiness.

Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.

The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale...

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.

The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.