You are only as deepas the ashtrays you use. You only stick around because you like the abuse.

In the movies, God is an actor just like everyone else.

I haven’t felt the full weightof the world on my shoulders, and I haven’t experienceda fraction of the painand embarrassment I’ve put out into this great bigwhite world.

I think of drug dealers like I think of my father— never really there when you want them to be.

A drop in the bucket, a tear in the ocean, you’ve been treading cold water, memorizing the motion just to stay afloat.

And I guess at the end of the day, you’re just amazed that I can still stand, and I’m just amazed that I can stand still.

It’s so hard not to be fascinated by the broken, to remember that a boy with a sad smile and a pretty face is not the boy that you should fall in love with.

You burn bright and you burn hard, like a fire in a dumpster, and nobody is so worriedabout you burning as they are worried about the fire spreading.

I’m a lot like you, and you’re a lot like me.It’s sad to say, and it’s sad to see.

It isn’t easy, ” is easy to say and sometimes I think that the only thing we can dois say really easy things to each other.

I want to remember what we were like before we became ourselves.

... one fire burns out another’s burning.One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. -Romeo & Juliet

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I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'

My father was one of ten children.

Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.

Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

Part of company culture is path-dependent. It’s the lessons you learn along the way.

I try to lead a life where I don't have to ask God for forgiveness.

And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.