Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.

She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent.

More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.

Make sure you are standing for something you believe in.

I held it together for the rest of the drive home but as soon as Kelsey dropped me off I flopped face down on the couch and sobbed like a reality TV star on confessional day.

Sailboat racing becomes a game of chance only when you are not prepared

I never meant to be but a dreamer.

When you have great acting partners, you hope that your reaction to them is propels you deeper into your own character.

Ability is not always gauged by examination.

I don't want to ever, ever do something in life that isn't fun. Ever.

Anyone can die. It's living that requires courage.

I do certain things that, maybe, nobody else knows why I'm doing. But it's all - it all has to do with - to grow as an actor.

This is about doing something difficult and not stopping when it becomes not just difficult, but cold and difficult...or cold and wet and difficult...or cold and wet and dark and difficult.