I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.

Hopeful men do not die so easily.

But just get through this day. That's all you have to do.

Johnathan had known he wouldn't be able to simply shut off his thoughts and go to sleep. His entire body - everything he could feel, at least - was like a tightly coiled spring.

When I read something by someone... I like to dive in his world as much as possible.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

Let others seek renown in arms; For me wine's wars have greater charms: Then fill the bowl, boy; fill it high: 'Tis better drunk, than dead to lie.

I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?

The whole world is a personality cult.

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.

When I started getting into West Coast rap - The Game, then I started studying a lot of Tupac Shakur and watching his interviews.