He and I have a head-nod friendship, since that's pretty much the limit of our interaction.

Hope keeps you alive.

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine.

Find your bones. Believe in what you are.

Find the alignment between your gifts, skills, experiences and people’s needs. Therein is your secret to tap into the unknown

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

It is nothing, to give one’s life for Ireland. I’m not the first and maybe I won’t be the last. What’s my life compared with the cause?

Nobody should ever mistake and think that our country [USA] is weakened, or that authority is diffuse and unspecified, and that we are vulnerable.

I'm a rapper but I'm a human being.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

When you're truly happy, you are being yourself.

Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.