What are you up to?" "I was trying to climb that tree. But I fell. Now I'm bored.

there is no moment more precious than the exact moment you are living now

There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.

There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.

You can be only what you give yourself the power to be.

You seem to be attracted to trouble," he said. "Yeah, she's real pretty," I replied. "Your tongue is sharper than mine ever was." I stuck out my tongue and tried to look at the tip of it.

What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked. A Filler Crisp," Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous.

That said, I, Beck Phillips, take full responsibility for being stuck in m y school's pitch-black venting system with my friend Jason, behind me and a garbage bag full of angry bees in front of me.

There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.

We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.

impossible is not a word

The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.

Always take the first step. That's where the journey begins.

We enjoy talking about music, politics, and subjugation. —Kinky Friedman to Night Rider on KOKE-FM

Enough for me is the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being.

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'

Or whatever politically correct spiritual representation of universal goodness you happen to believe in.

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.