“Life has no instruction manual. Parts and labor can be impossible to find. Many go down the road with parts that are in great need of service. A breakdown is eventual.”

“There’s no such thing as friendship. You just get what you need when you need it as fast as you can. The only reason that people give is so they can take later on.”

“The countryside is beautiful. I’ve never seen anything like it. Thatched roofs on the houses. Snow everywhere, the sky is so blue. I’m 22 years old today.”

“we get to Preston and find that it’s depressing”

“I need to know what you think of me so I can form an opinion about myself.”

“Don’t take candy from strangers unless you’re willing to take a ride in the car.”

“Getting rid of you is a good thing, that’s why I don’t write you back I’m vomiting every memory from my system”

“Music makes life possible.”

“He shuffled into middle-age silently and without protest.”

“Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.”

“There will be no real life There will be the alcohol circus”

“You hide your fear and call it something else You’re addicted to all the things that make you weak”

“Stay away from people They’ll slow you down and break your heart”

“It’s hard to change adults. They are going to do what they are going to do.”

“It’s hard to change adults. They are going to do what they are going to do.”

“Now shut the fuck up and watch some MTV.”

“My heart is making a dull, drumming sound and I’m thinking that my life is a waiting game and I’m sinkin’ all the while.”

“She left an empty house in my heart. The lights don’t work anymore, the heater’s broken.”

“America is seething at all times. It's like a Gaza Strip that's three thousand miles long.”

“Sometimes it’s hard to convince yourself that you’re not an idiot.”

“I wish I wasn’t alive as much as you are dead”

“What is this bullshit? 97% caffeine free is 97% not my kind of thing.”

“I don’t ask for much. I should ask for a lot, then maybe I might get some.”

“I’m sorry for not being sorry that I’m not sorry”

“All bullshit and no death and mutilated assholes makes Jack a dull boy, dull and tense.”

“Jangles my nerves like a tambourine of razors.”

“Yesterday wants to pull me in, pull me down and starve me.”

“Sleep is my escape. It gives me a break from the ceaseless self awareness that I choke on.”

“You’re going to do what you’re going to do and that’s all there is. That’s all you got and that’s that.”

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...”

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”

“All good things are wild and free.”

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”

“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”