My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.

I’m not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls.

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.

You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees.

I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.

Badass is a juvenile aspiration.

My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then.

This is the crepe. This is the cider. This is how we live and eat.

I knew that I did not want to go to that juvenile diversion program because I had an intuitive sense that it would turn me irrevocably into the kind of character that I was now only rehearsing to be.

[I] like to be anchored by routine, not shackled by it.

It’s an evil fate to fall into the hands of a persecutor who was once persecuted.

If the good news is an invitation to a Jesus way of life and not information about somebody who accomplished something on my behalf, I’m sunk. This is law and no gospel.

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

Giving opens up avenues for abundance.

All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.

Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for 30 minutes on break.

There are some movies that I remember a couple of seconds and I want to carry those couple of seconds in my heart forever, or wherever it is, and that's worth it.

Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.

I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.