“Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people……..”

“You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore."I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk”

“some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.”

“Listen up. Rant would tell people: ‘You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.’Sometimes Rant said, ‘You only ever is in the eyes of other folks.’If you were going to carve a quote on his grave, his favorite saying was: ‘The future you have tomorrow won’t be the same future you had yesterday.”

“When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.”

“And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. "Hero" isn't the first word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.”

“If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.”