..pain can't be taken away. It has to leave on its own. And I wasn't sure mine was the type of pain that wanted to go away.

That's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.

And the thing about trying to cheat death is that, in the end, you still lose.

I love that there's such a rivalry. It's like, leaf water versus bean water, ya know? - Charlie

I didn't realise you'd ridden here on your high horse

Art is pain. And so is life.

We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present.

It was like Latham: sometimes the point wasn't being the best, because it didn't mean you had the best life, or the best friends, or the best time.

But at the last minute, I turned left, because I never had before, and because I had time to go down a different road.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever

The ideas are louder when there are fewer of them.

Without a vision to guide our path, and without ambition that knows no limits, we can never build a bright future for generations to come.

States are as the men are they grow out of human characters.

Practice all movements slow and fast, soft and hard; the effectiveness of Jeet Kune-Do depends on split-second timing and reflexive action, which can be achieved only through repetitious practice.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

I'm treating every day as a special one and trying to live in the moment.

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.

I'll be honest, I felt an urge to squeeze him like a kitten and that led to the gesture I made. There was nothing behind it really.