“There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.”

“A villain is just a victim whose story hasnt been told.”

“You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.”

“What grinds me the most is we're sending kids out into the world who don't know how to balance a checkbook, don't know how to apply for a loan, don't even know how to properly fill out a job applic...”

“When one thing takes another away, what do we call that? she asked my class. Homicide! I called out”

“Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!”

“Ever have a dream so real you felt you could reach out and touch it?”

“The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (a...”

“Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.”