The first kiss between two people is something really good in life.

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

His is the same fear most everyone has, everyone for me for the fact that I cannot.

It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends

Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.

I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.

The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

I don't try to pretend to be what I'm not. I don't feel I need to do anything outrageous.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

What are you doing here? (Jericho) Do my accommodations offend you? I’ve grown quite used to them. Though a view of something other than mangled bodies might be nice for a change. (Jaden)