Some of us had been running all our lives. We ran because we could and because we could not. We ran for our lives. We still thought they were worth running for.

The story you choose to tell isn't always the story you believe.

Sometimes a perfect memory can be ruined if put to words.

There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.

Most people, in the end, really are all on their own.

We were alive. I remember it that way. We were still alive, and we couldn't see how close we were to the end.

Something I would always remember. When you forget how bad it hurts, you feel so free.

Our private tastes in books showed a hint of our secret selves.

Maybe, long ago, we used to be good. Maybe all little girls are good in the beginning.

The point is, every book we had could save us in a different way -- only, we had to open it. We had to drop our eyes to the page and drink in the words that were there.

I knew that just because people on the outside were free and clean, it didn’t mean they were the good ones.

Invest your life into what you were born to do. Make every minute of your life count. Redeem every minute of your life and convert it into greatness.

Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet.

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.

Zen is the study of mind in all of its manifestations. The purpose of Zen is to be happy.

If you spend your whole life being careful not to break anything, you'll get terribly bored, you know...I can't think of anything more fun than being impulsive!

As actors, we react to the material that's out there, and I probably just react more strongly to things that I feel will have some social value.

The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.

My eyes change colors, which is why you guys have never been able to figure it out.

I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.