Disappointment is part of parenthood, Jasper. The trick is learnin' to love your kids even when they disappoint you.

I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.

Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.

You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror.

If I think she' hot and it turns out she's a psychopath, then what does that say about me? I'm totally not ready for that kind of therapy.

And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we're us.

[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.

The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.

I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.

It's a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.

A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.

Discover your calling and add value to it

Stop using him, and start protecting him. I know he thinks he doesn't need it, but sometimes he does. Sometimes we all do.

Living in a castle is objectively romantic.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.

Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.

I like pressure. Pressure is good.

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long.

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.