My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.

Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.