You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love...

I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.

People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.

The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.

Were you planning to jump off?"“Not on pizza day. Never on pizza day, which is one of the better days of the week.” I should mention that I am a brilliant deflector.

I run until time stops. Until my mind stops.

For a minute, I can feel it: the sense of peace as my mind goes quiet, like I'm already dead. I am weightless and free. Nothing and no one to fear, not even myself.

She waves her arms at the world. "It's all just time filler until we die.

Angry at him for leaving without a word, angry at myself for being so easy to leave and for not being enough to make him want to stick around.

I love the thrill of impending, weightless doom...

Love is curiosity sometimes. Concentrated wondering about the other one.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.

My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miners son should go to drama school.

That's my job, to motivate people. I can do more, show people more things. That's really why I play basketball. That's my whole purpose of playing basketball.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

Don't ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.