For a moment, I felt like myself again. Not the new me, not the old me, just the real me.

For the first time in ages I felt a tiny pinprick in my heart--not like it was breaking, but like something small and unseen had begun sewing it closed again.

What better time to be kind to a beautiful stranger than when she’s weak, and rocking a schnoz like the Godfather?

I want you to say it, so I know you'll never forget. I want to hear you say my name.

Happier than a bird with a french fry.

You're too young to be so old.

It felt terrific. It felt deeper and richer than laughter. It felt like opening a door and tumbling headfirst into a pile of feathers.

Oh, Troy? He’s no one. He wanted something more from me than I could give.”“Friends with benefits?” Laurie asked, blushing as he said it.“More like frenemies with benefits.

You're not a nuthatch, Laurie.""Oh, but I am. I'm totally upside down. I'm a very backward kind of guy.

If he would see me again, I would die happy. In the meantime, I was merely dying.

Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.

Change what is into the wonder it can be.

Philanthropist: a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.

The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.

I made up my mind that nothing,, nothing was going to stop me Not even me.

My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

If I were a chocolate I'd eat myself. Seriously, we're all interested in ourselves and what other people are saying about us to some extent.

I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.