Winter dawn is the color of metal, The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances when you're not safe when you're not in the middle of the road...

The only time that exists in life is now.

Everything is going to be fine now because heroes are here.

Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

How could you be nervous about asking me to marry you, Bones? I'd die for you. Why wouldn't I want to live for you as well?

Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!