Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.

There are many ways of getting strong, sometimes talking is the best way.

Frankie's chief virtue in my book is the way he talks about his kids.

Control what you can control.

Given all that lies beyond mycontrol, I obsess about the few things I can control

The most animated talks we have are about…things

I address the trophy and the warped reflection: All the pain and suffering you've caused me.

Maybe I don't know yet how to be happy and play well at the same time.

I slide to my knees and say, "Please let this be over." Then, I'm not ready for it to be over.

Lose of hope leads to discouragement.

It still hurts, " she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own.

It turns out dentists don't like it very much when you show up for a cleaning in full vampire gear.

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.

If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs.

The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.

The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.