Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

Suicide is very contagious.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.

A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?""Well, sweetheart, " I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.

Rarely do you regret what you have done nearly as much as what you have failed to do.

On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?

I snore. Just ask the others!

How can you truly know what success is, if you’ve never experienced failure?

For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.

Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.

Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it.

Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.