School is a pile of crap. School has always been a pile of crap – he had just never bothered to think about it until today.

Within the grand scale of things, sitting in a classroom day after day is so utterly meaningless and pointless that it actually makes his chest hurt to think about it.

Look at yourself on the day that you graduated from college, then look at yourself today. I did that recently and it was like, 'Yikes! What the hell happened?

To reach the high notes in life, you must open your heart to sing.

Readers don’t work for writers. They work for themselves.

Maybe they didn't make vampires out of ugly people. Or maybe ugly people just didn't want to live forever.

Ha! Good luck, lady!" Gustav laughed and tapped his thick index finger against his temple. "No one knows what goes on inside this head. Not even me.

Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.

They haven't left us much to believe, have they? — even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home, or anything vaguer than a human being.

I also wanted my basketball players to know that I really cared about them. Forget basketball; as a person, I cared, I cared about their family.

Everything has to come through the senses, as though the soul is speaking out through the senses.

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.