What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don’t need to be wasted on naming things.

t may not be the life you imagined, but it’s your life. You came here for a reason. Is it time for you to go and begin again?

Cause and effect are rarely directly related. Justice has a mind of her own.

You earn brotherhood—the purest friendship, trust, love, whatever you want to call it—moment by moment through how you treat others.

Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road.

I'm learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit.

Questions from earlier circle like buzzards. Am I running away or moving forward?

The waves splash against my face, carrying a message: Welcome, you belong here.

To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no—an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I no longer care to practice.

Nothing worse than someone who goes to the dance, is excited to dance, dances all night, and then complains all the next day about his feet being sore.

I never get used to the faces--wide-eyed and full of possibility--staring bad at me.

Do it now even-though your Lazy mind says, Will do later

You're a kid, ' said Alexandra. 'There is no just about it. Only adults say just a kid and what the heck do they know about anything? Have you looked at their world lately?

We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately.

It's very tiring, being so old. But I do love living.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.

I have students who are PhDs in music who come back and scored the music and teach the kids the instruments that I don't know how to play. Those are the points of light, the former students.

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.