I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.

Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.

You'll have pie in the sky when you die.

Aren't you going to tell me I'm not so bad? she asked. Mmm-no. I was thinking how every man loves a hot girl with a history of making mistakes. Because it's always possible she'll make one with you.

Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner.

Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.

Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.