If I die on my way to the dance, it will be better than to survive having never lifted my feet.

May we each find in ourselves the courage we forgot we have, to see the beauty we forgot is inside us, while battling the demons we forgot we can slay, on a battlefield we forgot we can win.

Should' assumes that when either willingness or ability is lacking, it may be compensated for by an abundance of the other. This is simply not realistic.

What you call 'contradiction' I call 'complement'.

I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called 'helping' them.

We’re all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death.

If it’s convenient to love you, you’re lying to someone about who you are or what you need.

If you’re lying to everyone you know, including yourself, at every possible turn, is a little upheaval really the worst that could happen to your life right now?

No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.

One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I’m going to die.

My brothers and I love A Christmas Story. It reminds us of ourselves when we were that age." "Your father didn't want to give you a BB shotgun because you might shoot your eye out?

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself.

Is not virtue a negation of becoming?

What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.

But coming to terms with one’s sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.

I think it's really great that people share their work [on Myspace] and no one is paying for it. I think that's a very healthy thing and it's not a corporate thing.

Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.

I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.