"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
~Harold Wilson

"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection."
~Bertrand Russell

~before a Local Natives CMJ show at Santos in New York

"You're a kid dating a rock star. I'm pondering chemistry.com." ~DCM, while flipping me off

"It's no wonder I feel like I can conquer the world, all I listen to is LL Cool J." ~jG Francis

"Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing."

~Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

"It's going to take more than a one dollar taco to kill me."

~Eric Trujillo, after violently choking on a one dollar taco at Malo

"The truth is, I only have to receive and give what I am able. There is no risk. The intimacy, the interconnectedness of all life that is the love to which we all belong, can only be given and received. It cannot be taken."

~Oriah Mountain Dreamer

"Aventures don't have anything to do with cable."

~Regan Blayne, on her decision to cancel cable and start having a more adventurous life

"It seems kind of dead." ~me
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"You just said that, right?" -Melanie Caselas, as we were walking through the Hollywood Forever Cemetary looking for a party

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
~Steve Jobs (posted this before, but it's just so good, I decided to post it again)

“I cannot promise very much.
I give you the images I know.
Lie still with me and watch.
We laugh and we touch.
I promise you love. Time will not take that away.”
~Anne Sexton

"I'm not gay...I don't think..."
~Ry Sarmiento, in response to his friends calling him "gay" in the 7th grade for listening to Elliot Smith and Wilco

"You are going to reach the island and you don't need a boat. And I can give you some water wings if you want them.
And I'll even egg beater water polo style for a while to hold you up. But you are going to reach it."
~Taylor Rice, to me, via chat, on not giving up on your dreams (thanks Tay)

"You're weird." ~me
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"Yeah well, people called Michael Jordan weird for flying through the air." ~DCM

“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”
~Albert Einstein

"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'
'I dare say you haven't had as much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age I did it for half an hour a day. Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
~Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass (thanks Mom)

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”
~Henry Van Dyke

“There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.”
~Anthony Rapp

"I promise that me and my flavor savor will keep on savin' the flavor."
~Conner McKinley, on "Tat-Tool", while watching Tool Academy

“There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us."
~Orison Swett Marden

"We can't wait for our lists to be entirely fulfilled in order to be ready and prepared for the world. We have to make wish lists that send us out into the world."
~Mel Caselas

"Never judge a friend by their friends and never judge a garage sale by its driveway." ~Jake Notehelfer

~walking along the Silver Lake Reservoir

"Life is a vast and intricate conspiracy designed to keep us well supplied with blessings. What kind of blessings? Palatial homes, attractive lovers, lottery winnings, career success? Maybe. But just as likely: interesting surprises, unexpected challenges, gifts we hardly know what to do with, conundrums that force us to get smarter."
~Rob Brezsny

"I like pets, I just don't think it's worth it to take care of them." ~Taylor Rice 

"It's like I'm trying to milk a rock."
~Jamie Masters, on forcing herself to write poetry when she just wants to bake muffins

"This is how it works. Your young until your not. You love until you don't. You try until you can't. You laugh until you cry. You cry until you laugh. And everyone must breathe, until their dyin breath. No this is how it works. You peer inside yourself. You take the things you like, try to love the things you took. And then you take that love you made and stick it into someone else's heart, pumpin someone else's blood. And walking arm in arm, you hope it don't get harmed. But even if it does, you'll just do it all again."
~Regina Spektor, "On The Radio" (thanks Heather)

"I still haven't figured out how I'm going to pay rent yesterday."
~me to SKL, via Google chat

"I'm sorry I kicked your ass, but I'm not sorry that I'm an ass kicker. That's what I do. I kick people in the ass! Everybody is going to be what they are, whatever they are and there isn't going to be anything to apologize about."
~Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool Acid Test (thanks Carly)