Matt is grinning at me like I'm the new Christmas toy he really wanted, but can't play with yet because he hasn't read the instructions.

How come a boy can be so stupid, but a Daddy, who actually used to be a BOY himself, can be so wonderful?

Do they wish us well?Or hope to see us fail?

Come on Princess, " he sighs, as he scoops me up off the sand and carries me to my room. "I'm not going to be able to sleep, unless I know you're safe.

Maybe I'll just give up on boys. Okay, maybe not. I mean they're just so cute!

Be where your enemy is not.

Everything about riding a bicycle compels you towards beauty.

People who need people are threatened by people who don’t. The idea of seeking contentment alone is heretical, for society steadfastly decrees that our completeness lies in others.

The less men think the more they talk.

Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board

It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness.

I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.

If I were a doctor nobody would be inviting me to talk to reservations. I'd be a different person. Writers can influence more people.

I had gone to jail, but I wasn't gettin' locked up for drugs then. I was gettin' locked up for guns. My moms kept finding guns and stuff in my room and she was gettin' more scared.

We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.