That was the challenge. How can you tell the story here and make sure it goes the same way on the other side of the world?

I don't want to die tomorrow knowing I could've had a piece of cake tonight.

There's 5 levels of fatness! Fluffy is one of the levels. There's big, healthy, husky, fluffy and damn.

Why do people measure life by the years instead of how good the years were?

I drink diet coke so I can eat regular cake.

Me racist? The only race I hate is the one you have to run.

Life is measured by how you lived it, not by the years.

With all the classes they offer at school, how come they don't have one for common sense?

When you go to Hawaii, it's all about "Aloha." It means hello, goodbye and I love you.

You live by the cake, you die by the cake.

I had to travel half way across the world to be called an American.

For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.

Ari looks fiercely resolute. It’s the same look she has on her face at the start of every race: Dogged determination. My heart and head enter into full-on combat mode.

A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being.

Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

Life is what you make of it, unless you have tourette's, in which case much becomes involuntary.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

It all comes down to confidence: your body can do great things only if it believes it can accomplish them.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right.

I'm doing a much smaller movie. It's set in Germany and it's a totally different subject matter. I'm trying to break it up.