She launched the airplane and it caught a current and circled down toward the town, like a promise of something good.

Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.

Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?

I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right.

As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it around my neck. I could wear it to school tomorrow. It could read, I MISS CHARLIE KHAN.

It also makes my father right again. How will I ever soar with the eagles if I'm surrounded by turkeys?

The trick is remembering that change is as easy as you make it. The trick is remembering that you are the boss of you.

I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is. Which Zen guy said "If you want to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water"?

--he stopped and eyed Bill Corso--"if you choose to just sit here like a bored jungle gorilla, you will have to write out this quote as many times as you can during the next hour.

I wish for world peace, because it's about as likely to occur anything else I can wish for.

As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

My whole career - I have been really lucky.

The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.

Oh, I love red. I'm very loyal to my colors. I love violet.

There is a lot of difference between the man who is not able and his brother who is notable.

Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.