It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun.

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.

Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.

It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do.

A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting.

Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves.

If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.

This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?

It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded.

She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

Your eyes are so comely that I can't turn my eyes away.

But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.

Some girls look beautiful with no makeup on at all. I call them lazy. Now go throw some war paint on you bleak empty canvas you.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

I think maybe L.A. or San Francisco could be rushed, but Sacramento is just laid back!

I so admire great writing done quickly, with great detail.

One rarely does well what one rarely does.

I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in." -Gabriel McGregor