Sometimes I wish that I hadn't learned how to crochet," I say, and Alice laughs. Obviously she thinks I'm joking, which is maybe for the best.

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.

It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.

When one is learning one should not think of play and when one is at play one should not think of learning.

We are definitely living in the butterfly effect theory, where any change that is made in the past is going to have a very logical cause-and-effect ramification of the present.

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

I think my work is very difficult to understand. Sometimes people do and sometimes they don't. I can't do much about that.

The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.

I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.

One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.

It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

Will people think I've been dropped? Oh God, you don't want people to think that. No one will want to touch you if they think you got dropped.