At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we “don’t know” what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn’t. Art lets us tell the truth, but even art can be something to hide behind.

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless.

I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.

I don’t know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we’ve committed some crime.

One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.

What Dino spent most of his time doing was hiring and firing new managers. Since he ditched William Tiero three-plus years ago, he just want through these poor guys like you go through a bag of M&M's when you've got your period. Consume, and on the the next.