I'm still not totally sure I know what's true about me.

I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine. They handed the lie to me, and I tried like hell to make it work for a while.

Now whenever I left class to go to the boys' room, I worried that I would end up on the blue tiled floor in a puddle of piss and blood.

If we held grudges for all the idiotic things we said and did as freshman and sophomores, the hallways would be silent.

If a fight looks like a lot of fun, you should be suspicious. 'If you ain't scared of standing up for what's right, you ain't standing up for much.

I mean, I really liked him to the point where being around him was sort of wonderful and painful all at the same time, you know?

Please your mother: just lie around upstairs and smoke some pot. Be a revolutionary.

She kissed me on the cheek, and my mom sang Theresa’s name from the open front door. She loves Theresa. I think she loves me more when I’m with her.

I could feel his hand on my waist, his arms around me, feel the rise and fall of his chest next to mine as I held my breath, and wished the sun would drop out of the sky.

It was duck apocalypse!

Dude, ” he said instead, “I’m flattered as hell.” And then he kicked my foot, lightly, twice. He was smiling.He couldn’t see the chasm that had opened behind my ribs.

Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue what you want.

Sadly a pinch of happiness is not sold in markets.

I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

As a fighter, you've got to do what you've got to do to get the big fights.

If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either.

The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.

The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.

My life is pretty much an open book.

I will spark a generation of thinkers who will question traditional thought until they find the absolute truth.

We should want small business, large business all doing well. We shouldn't want to punish them for the simple reason that they've gone into business, which is what the Democrats do.