I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.

My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.

Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.

I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.

We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.

Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.

The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.

The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods.

I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken.

Give and TakeThe Chief takes less than he is givenAnd gives more than he has taken.

Jeet Kune Do: it's just a name; don't fuss over it. There's no such thing as a style if you understand the roots of combat.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.

A dreaming vortex is a place where it's easy to change. You come to a dreaming vortex like Hawaii to step from one dream into another, from one world into another, to change, in other words.

Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality.

To me, an outlaw is a man that did things his own way, whether you liked him or not. I did things my own way.

The minute I started addressing my feelings, I actually came out of very negative situations.

The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.