I don't want someone to squeeze me, that might take away my life. Just want someone to hold me, and we'll rock through the night.

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.

There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

At this point in my life Id like to live as if only love mattered.

So don't be tempted by the shiny apple Don't you eat of a bitter fruit Hunger only for a taste of justice Hunger only for a world of truth 'Cause all that you have is your soul.

We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.

I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.

Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone

We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world.

You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.

When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card.(Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)

There is no other shame like senseless sin.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

I must always march on in my life. What's done is done.

Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.

Fine, than I will not have to blame you for killing my friends with your stupidity. -Haymitch