But today when I am 17 and warm and well fed, I'm keeping this journal for myself so I can always remember life as we knew it, life as we know it, for a time when I am no longer in the sunroom.

The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.

What about desserts?" I asked. "If the world comes to an end, I'm going to want cookies.

I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it;s the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.

I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to do with me can destroy my life and the lives of people I love.

I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.

Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.

What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?' 'To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said.

That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.

Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another’s glory or toward degrading each other.

I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I am not going to protest.

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.

Man alone can enslave man.

The Bassbone works great in the studio or on the live stage. Throw it in your gig bag and take it wherever you go.