I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it’s like there was some part of mestanding back, watching, thinking, “Is this as good as it gets?

It’s like I’d been walking a tightrope with a big safety net underneath me, but I never really thought about the net until someone took it away. And then every single step scared me to death.

But things are so bad, I feel like I’m going to explode if I don’t do something.

But, really, are there any guys out there who aren’t jerks? I don’t even know any grown-up men who aren’t jerks.

But it’d be nice to have someone who cared about me, someone I could talk toabout anything, someone who’d tell me I was really special.

I love you all - if you are not people!

We want to live in ambiguity. This is the human condition.

The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines.

I am trying to re-shape and improve my central position.

Water does not force its way.

When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since.

The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.

Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.

I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.