I like idolator.com a lot. Every once in a while they shred me on there, but it's usually pretty funny.

Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there

Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

Everyone you idolize wakes up scared to be themselves sometimes.

And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

Our brains may lie to us, but our hearts never do.

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.

Being surrounded by six Brendons is so not fun.

It is a blessed bliss to live to be old.

Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it.

because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly

Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril.

Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.

The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves.

It's a good thing [James] Dean died when he did. If he'd lived, he'd never have been able to live up to the publicity.

Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.