I used to be so convinced that happiness was the goal, yet all those years I was chasing after it I was unhappy in the pursuit. Maybe the goal really should be a life that values honor, duty, good work, friends and family.

I need a lot of support... Life is really hard, and I don't see some active benevolent force out there. I see it as basically a really cool survival game. You get on the right side of the tracks, and you now are actually working with what some people would call magic.

I'm not used to feeling like I belong where I am.

The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.

There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.

There's somewhere you're supposed to go, and if you get quiet enough, you'll make it.

Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.