What is it with folks always talking about where they're from? You could grow up in a muddy ditch, but if it's your muddy ditch, then it's gotta be the swellest muddy ditch ever.

Almost dying is awfully easy. It's the living that's hard.

This, I thought, was true love. Someone who made you happy without saying a word.

Libraries help you to dream!

I am just as far away from Alice with an I.Q. of 185 as I was when I had an I.Q. of 70. And this time we both know it.

When you are motivated by the kindness and wellbeing of humanity, then nothing can scare or derail you.

Fear of dying must surely mean fear of how one dies. If one can be assured of a painless death, how can one fear it, unless one is a religious fanatic with a very guilty conscience?

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve.

The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.

Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.

Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel fear or sadness. This gets exaggerated in prison.

Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.

There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that's here.