This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]

It wasn't so much that I was in search of answers. In fact, I was wary of the whole idea of answers. I wanted to climb all the way inside of the questions and see what was there.

Gone was the reflexive need to see the worst in things. Before the tumors took her life, they gave her a few moments of grace.

Being Happy is important, not the reason.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

Life is not always what we think it is.

We have to reserve the right to bomb the niggers.

I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There's no need to have an attachment to the outcome because it's out of your hands after that.

Put Smarties tubes on cats legs, make them walk like a robot.

Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

All I've seen agents do is talk players into having bad senior seasons because they're trying to keep themselves from getting injured.

If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble.

I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.