Most would probably call it a dumb idea, but considering my wants it was a good idea.

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.

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

And i still don't know how to make sense of the world. but maybe it's okay that it's bigger than what we can hold on to.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

Reading can take you places you have never been before.

Why should you have to atone for making big movies?

The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have kept her alight.

That made me happy. That was my Anchor.

I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.