Walking with Murphy through the bone-freezing chill toward the bus stop, I start shivering. And somehow, when he slips his arm around me to warm me up, it feels right. Righter than anything ever has.

There’s something so great about this,” she whispers. About what?” I whisper back. About this,” she whispers. About being outlaws. It’s just you and me—against the world.

When we kiss, his lips on mine are like CPR-- breathing the life back into me.

The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting it.

She flashes me a smile so devastating that it could even make an atheist believe in God.

But most days, I wander around feeling invisible. Like I'm a speck of dust floating in the air that can only be seen when a shaft of light hits it.

My parents are great listeners Which is why I never tell them anything

The golden moment when I’m not yet awake enough to remember that there are things I would rather forget.

You're thinking I'm a hopelessly romantic idiot. And you know what? You're right.

Culture Clash Dylan says when I meet his mother today I shouldn't mention that I'm Jewish. I say okay, but can I tell her about the HIV postive thing? He gives me a look. I give him one back

Friends don't let friends commit social suicide.

Everyone wants to procreate, have a miniature version of themselves running around, to carry on the family line.

When people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite gorgeous.

Don't you wish we could pick the people we love?" "Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the same things we want.

An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage.

If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.

Big hooks have always been a part of American movie-making. So, to make a movie where you're just driving story through the characters without a high-concept is a challenge.

I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.