Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it.

The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.

What about desserts?" I asked. "If the world comes to an end, I'm going to want cookies.

I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it;s the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.

I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to do with me can destroy my life and the lives of people I love.

I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.

Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.

What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?' 'To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said.

Happiness is essentially a gift

Nobody touches my ding dongs!

You, Stan, are covered with dirt and leaves.''''I just applied for a job as a tree, '' I said. It made so little sense, he didn't even bother responding.

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.

To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.

I got a woman that's mean as she can be, sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me.

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.