If I didn’t have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.

Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.

I just figured that was the life I picked, so I had to make the most of it.

Maybe part of finding what you wanted was recognizing what you didn’t want.

Why one human being is attracted to another is one of the great mysteries of the world.

He looks good for a while, but ya know, ya can’t shine a sneaker.

The remnants of his adolescent vulnerability were all over his face.

I confronted the fact that I was not only talking to a dog, but answering for one.

The only love originates from the light in the soul.

All my biggest failures began with the smallest compromises.

Discard negative comments, criticism and influences.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.

Pretty girls don't have ugly mouths.

Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.

There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.

You just say the word, and I'll make the rest of the world go away. I'll take you someplace safe, where no one else can reach us.