“Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.

Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.

Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.

But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.

If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.

The ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.

These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles.

His statement was, “We’re going to the same place, except you’re taking a taxi, and I’m driving my own car.” That’s me and Ian MacKaye’s relationship. I love him, he’s great.

I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode.

It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can’t imagine a day without her!

My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.

I think that if you’re just a good person, you work hard, you say “yes,” and you are driven.

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.