All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

About my boss, Tyler tells me, if I'm really angry, I should go to the post office and fill out a change-of-address card and have all his mail forwarded to Rugby, North Dakota.

Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.

You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is well connected is still the king of England. But if you humiliate a young person, you take away the only form of power they have.

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.