“We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.”

“All I care about in this goddamn life are me, my drums, and you.”

“We're all running away. Some of us just don't get very far.”

“The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.”

“Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.”

“We're all creative, it's just some of us earn our living by being so.”

“We listened, as all boys in their better moods will listen (ay, and men too for the matter of that), to a man whom we felt to be, with all his heart and soul and strength, striving against whatever was mean and unmanly and unrighteous in our little world. It was not the cold, clear voice of one giving advice and warning from serene heights to those who were struggling and sinning below, but the warm, living voice of one who was fighting for us and by our sides, and calling on us to help him and ourselves and one another.”