As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.

Chicago keeps getting all these complete games. Im expecting 50 cent hot dogs.

You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!

Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.

For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.

Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.