Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.

You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.

I don't believe in guardian angels, " Regine says seriously. "Just people who are there for you and people who aren't.

He really is alone in whatever hell this is.Completely and utterly alone.'It isn't, ' he thinks, as he trudges back toward his house, 'the most unfamiliar feeling in the world.

...which recall(s) a moment in time when raw excess made them a casual aristocracy, apart from the rest of the world.

The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree

I'm sorry if me being turned on turns you on.

My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

That's the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out there and for it to find the audience and connect with fans and connect with critics.

The key [to sharing the gospel] is that you be inspired of God, that you ask Him for direction and then go and do as the Spirit prompts you.

We all, at some point, grow old and acquire other qualities, and these can always be turned to good advantage.

Because I lived so close to the school and walked there every day, I used to enjoy the school bus trips.

Keep your nose to the grindstone. It sharpens your boogers.