I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I don't think it's oh so hard to walk four miles in the snow. I want that. I love that.

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

...being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it. And I had thought the thought.

and then I couldn't wait anymore, and my hand was on the back of her head, and then her lips on mine, the cold air gone and replaced with the warmth of her mouth, soft and sweet and hash-brown-tastic

We were just standing there, and her eyes were so interesting. Not in the usual way of being interesting, like being extremely blue or extremely big or flanked by obscenely long lashes or anything.

I'm not that bad, ” he said. “I'm rich, popular. I have a sense of humor. I'm good looking, and not to mention I have a really big—

LEGACY plays an important role in defining a good leader at any age.

God—the Bible’s Author—loves you and wants you to be His child through faith in Jesus Christ.

He stopped and leaned against a pole and looked up at the deaf and swollen sky. It was a movement of dark shapes, a hurrying, a running.He closed his eyes. ("Hunger")

Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

The violence is the violence. I understand that we're sometimes squeamish about it, but I think that strength needs to be called on once in awhile, and sometimes that's the only thing that will work.

Always be willing to look at both sides of the argument. Understanding the other side is the best way to strengthen your own.

In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.

The harmonious efforts which our guitarists produce unconsciously represent one of the marvels of natural art.

If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.