“When you don't have standards, it's easier to exceed them.”

“Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader.”

“I totally carpe-d the snot out of this diem!”

“...it's not what people do, it's what they don't tell you they do. That's what hurts. That's what you think about when the television signs off and you're still bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.”

“It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking, than think your way into a new way of acting.”

“And each night in bed I thought of her as the moon came through my window. I could have lowered my shade to make it darker and easier to sleep, but I never did. In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't the opposite of day, but its underside, its private side, when the fabulous purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert.”

“And that's when I realized, when you're a kid you don't need a costume, you ARE superman.”