“And I guess that's when it starts to hit me: the whole point is, you do what you can.”

“The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation.Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, orwhatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what?After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivationcomes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.”

“I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do.”

“When you find something that's whole, you do what you can to keep it that way. And when you fins something that isn't, then maybe it's not a bad idea to try to make it whole again. Maybe.”

“She wrote me a letter (Joan,1941) asking,"How can I read it?,Its so hard." I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until you're lost. Then start again at the beginning and keep working through until you can understand the whole book. And thats what she did”

“You can give me detention. Oh, wait, that's right...you aren't the boss of me. So I guess you can just bite me. -Dean”