If you promise you will get better instead of dying, I promise I will, too.

I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge.

You look like a handsome young man…although you might want to zip your fly. Mom! What? Should I have not told you and left it for everyone else to notice at the dance?

Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change

Chicks dig a dude who’s sporting the latest eggplant turtleneck styles.

But nobody ever tells you in advance when you should concentrate on the good times-that's why you're supposed to do it every day.

It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know that’s a weird image.

There are really no guidelines whatsoever, because this is the kind of thing that only happens to ME.

And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.

Some kids do drugs. Some kids light stuff on fire. Me, I eat oats.

(Yes teenage boys who are fine always cry on their mothers’ shoulders until they leave a snot trail.)

There are perfectly good independent small nations.

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

We are free to change the world and start something new in it.

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

You want some? Come get some!

Malcolm X finally became the person he was meant and raised to be. He fought against the forces of racism to return to that. Malcolm wanted to inspire other people to find their own strength.

Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.

You can let hate, animosity and anger eat away at you, or you can let it go and begin again.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.