I didn't think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it.

Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup.

When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.

Amen' is like the Send button on an email.

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.

Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.

Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

Don't be afraid to have nothing.

sometimes you gotta Run before you can Walk.

The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.

I am not going to think about it. It was ugly, but it’s over, and I’m not going to think about it.

When Neil played for me, he ran his legs off. (on Neil Lennon)

Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.

Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.

As long as I leave my frustration behind, I know I am moving toward my goal again.