I always like routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.

Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.

Pretty thoughts= Pretty actions

If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.

In business -- every business -- the bottom line is understanding the process. If you don't understand the process, you'll never reap the rewards of the process.

It's harder to gain relevance or traction. But I'm of the opinion that if something's really good - not pretty good, but really, really good - people will hear about it.

Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother.

Write what you love and love what you write.

I wasn't a very athletic boy. I was once lapped in the long jump

Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.

I suppose I'm just an old soul.