I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is. Which Zen guy said "If you want to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water"?

Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.

Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?

I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right.

As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it around my neck. I could wear it to school tomorrow. It could read, I MISS CHARLIE KHAN.

It also makes my father right again. How will I ever soar with the eagles if I'm surrounded by turkeys?

The trick is remembering that change is as easy as you make it. The trick is remembering that you are the boss of you.

She launched the airplane and it caught a current and circled down toward the town, like a promise of something good.

--he stopped and eyed Bill Corso--"if you choose to just sit here like a bored jungle gorilla, you will have to write out this quote as many times as you can during the next hour.

I wish for world peace, because it's about as likely to occur anything else I can wish for.

Humanity reaches to its full development with beauty of thoughts and deeds

As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies.

To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.

The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.

Oh, America is slipping away from the rest of the consciousness of the planet - slipping away.

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

I don't think silicone makes a girl good or bad.

History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.

Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be safe.

Like the birds I will fly.