My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.

The most deafening sound in all creation, is the sound of absolute silence.

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

My work is very much like the restaurant critic's - a number of factors come together to make for a strong review.

We were all born carrying a promise -- a promise to make the world better -- and there's a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.

Everyone in my family was a very serious worker, always with a determination to provide for each other.

I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.