Would I come off as a creepy-stalker-kind-of-guy or would it demonstrate that I cared?

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.

Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.

It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do.

A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting.

Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves.

If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.

This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?

It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded.

She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.

my life was lived through falling rainso call on me if there be pain

It's a myth that boys don't like to gossip.

The other night while lying on a couch I reviewed the high point of my life and fell asleep!

I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.

Life is ridiculous. It's not our fault.

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers.

And Christ says of that which is blessed, which is offered, received, eaten and drunk: This is My body; this is My blood.

There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.

I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time.