we should live like we smoke— inhale the present and exhale the past.

Pain changes us. Mine made me want to be perfect, so that no one would ever want to leave me again.

Each one you take is a commitment. If you break that commitment, the gods of alcohol will punish you with a hangover so bad you'll think Satan himself took a dump on you. -Milo

Even the good things from our pasts still only belonged in the past

I will call bullshit on that so many times that the word bullshit will lose all meaning. -Milo

I’ll take my chances against your fickle heart if it means it’s mine.

But sometimes you don’t know what you’re looking for until it’s already knocked you flat on your back.

Her eyes were a bottomless ocean that I would give up air to explore.

Oh how I had underestimated tender kisses.

Your pain made you strong. It made youpassionate and alive. It made us both who we are. -Cade

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

Shrug off the no’s – they are temporary. This is your world. In your world there is only yes.

...and I wondered, not for the first time, if some of life's tragedy arose when people put themselves in situations they were not by nature suited for.

I know for an absolute fact that if I ate a meal at one of Gordon Ramsay's restaurants, I would be able to taste his anger.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.

Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was a service it provided for free.

All your life you think 60 is ancient, and all of a sudden you find you're 60 and you don't really feel that different. I feel stronger and more engaged. This is the best time of my life.

Walk through life as a Blessed Person and a Miracle Maker.

I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.