On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are.

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.

Meditation is the alchemist of the soul. It transforms disappointment into acceptance

Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships

If you are a true Christian, you will not give way at home to bad temper, impatience, fault-finding, sarcasm, unkindness, suspicion, selfishness, or laziness.

Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.

I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.

But then the fate of shy people is that all of their fears usually come true.

I think that to be a competitive athlete, you have to be goal-oriented.

If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board.

The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.