Wow,” says Peter, “when your guidance counselor tells you to die, you really have problems.

When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.

Some of them are wearing skirts that I'm pretty sure are supposed to be belts.

If you really like someone, it doesn't matter what their mouth feels or tastes like. The kiss is still awesome.

Let me get this straight," I say. "You're practically ordering me to die. What kind of guidance counselor are you?

Wow, ” says Peter, “when your guidance counselor tells you to die, you really have problems.

There are songs that make you cry, right?""Sure, " I say."When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

There is no faster way to harden my determination than to assume I will fail at it.

The story writes you as much as you write it. And the process of re-writing isn't so much a quest to re-write the story as it is to re-write the writer.

Failure is not the final fall.

I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.

The goal should not be to make money or acquire things, but to achieve the consciousness through which the substance will flow forth when and as you need it.

Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it.

You gotta win. That's all it takes.

It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.