And guilt is heavy, like an anchor holding me in place and hindering any and all advancement.

I don’t want to be my limitations. I don’t want to be my pain. I don’t want to be my embarrassment.

Genetics doesn’t ensure love, or even like, time and effort do. You don’t give them your time, and you don’t show them effort

One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.

Every day is worthy of celebration because every day is a present you receive by grace.

such a short time. I am about to tell our barker,

And you, You can be meanAnd I, I'll drink all the time'Cause we're lovers, And that is a factYes we're lovers, And that is that

In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'

The least amount of buttons [in suit], the better. If you have to go with three, you can go three. But all that eight-button stuff? Nuh-uh, not a fan.

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

I'm going back to the old Shaq. I was normal last year - I was an earthling last summer. I had to go back to my alien roots.

Dreaming is the opportunity to hold a citizenship in two worlds, equally real but with different logic and limitations.