That's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.

And the thing about trying to cheat death is that, in the end, you still lose.

I love that there's such a rivalry. It's like, leaf water versus bean water, ya know? - Charlie

I didn't realise you'd ridden here on your high horse

..pain can't be taken away. It has to leave on its own. And I wasn't sure mine was the type of pain that wanted to go away.

Art is pain. And so is life.

We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present.

It was like Latham: sometimes the point wasn't being the best, because it didn't mean you had the best life, or the best friends, or the best time.

But at the last minute, I turned left, because I never had before, and because I had time to go down a different road.

If you can't trust, you can't be trustworthy.

I bet she thought she was getting into a fight with a vanilla wafer on roller skates but little did she know she was getting into a fight with a spider sandwich.

Why is it that one of the best songs in the world has to be written by the BeeGees?"Benedict

I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.

Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.

It is the mind itself which builds the body.

One of the things that happens in novels it's almost like a continual debate with yourself. That's why you're writing the book. It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.

Improved AR roads, via voter-approved tax increase.

Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.