As of right now, I am in love with her, and that love is the biggest problem in my life.

If you’re the type of person who wants to associate exclusively with those who perfectly mirror your own ethical worldview, you’re reducing significantly the scope of your potential life experience.

It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.

Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's 'lonely lonely,' like the way it feels when you're being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder.

Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.

But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.

Football allows the intellectual part of my brain to evolve, but it allows the emotional part to remain unchanged. It has a liberal cerebellum and a reactionary heart. And this is all I want from everything, all the time, always.