I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one's watching. Love as if it's all you know. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.

Remember: Life is short, break the rules

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.

You’re a teenager. It’s all complicated.

See the music, hear the dance.

The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.

The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.

When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would be released. I turned him down.

If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else.

It's not a performance to impress the Puritans

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

"We liked it" or "I didn't like it" people say. As if it were nothing higher than to please the people!

So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind me?