and then I couldn't wait anymore, and my hand was on the back of her head, and then her lips on mine, the cold air gone and replaced with the warmth of her mouth, soft and sweet and hash-brown-tastic

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

...being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it. And I had thought the thought.

I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I don't think it's oh so hard to walk four miles in the snow. I want that. I love that.

We were just standing there, and her eyes were so interesting. Not in the usual way of being interesting, like being extremely blue or extremely big or flanked by obscenely long lashes or anything.

Fear missing an opportunity more than you fear failure.

How wonderful it would be that your heart preserves the happiest of moments and you can fight all your negativity and challenges throughout your life with such feeling of that moment.

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong - although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by - come back to us with bitterness.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.

Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

There won't be a Palestinian state within Israel.

Through waves and clouds and storms His power will clear your way; Wait for his time; the darkest night Shall end in brightest day.

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.