I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia.

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.

When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart

Speed of love is measured in blushes per hour.

One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.

It may not seem like much - a few kisses in the dark - but it was enough to burn a hole like an ulcer in my heart.

To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.

I'm just a surfer who wanted to build something that would allow me to surf longer.

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

I feel blessed. So many men and women search and search but never find their passion, their calling, their sense of mission that would ignite their hearts and fill their lives with meaning and joy.

If I don't wear something I feel confident in, I don't play as well.