Where's your sense of misadventure?

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.

Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.

It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do.

A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting.

Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves.

If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.

This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?

It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded.

She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

There's a world of difference between a dog that is off the leash and a dog that is trained to be off the leash.

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

Love is the most powerful force in the world.

In my dreams you are standing right beside me, two hearts finally colliding, then i wake up and realise, realise, this is real life

The more I know, the less I understand

In a democracy, the public should be asked how much security and how much privacy they want for themselves.

He was the closest thing I'd ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn't count. You were either in, or you weren't.