I am what I am because I have made myself so.

there is no moment more precious than the exact moment you are living now

There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.

There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.

You can be only what you give yourself the power to be.

You seem to be attracted to trouble," he said. "Yeah, she's real pretty," I replied. "Your tongue is sharper than mine ever was." I stuck out my tongue and tried to look at the tip of it.

What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked. A Filler Crisp," Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous.

That said, I, Beck Phillips, take full responsibility for being stuck in m y school's pitch-black venting system with my friend Jason, behind me and a garbage bag full of angry bees in front of me.

There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.

We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.

impossible is not a word

Eric has said that I carry close to my chest a ball of barbed wire that I sometimes throw at other people.

I am repeating... It's not a drill, ... It's real....

Jackass millionaires, hey, hey, Hollywood, here we come.

Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that.

You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.

No increase in the welfare of the member of society can result from the availability of an additional quantity of money.

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it.