"Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in."

“My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.”

“I got into rock-and-roll because I wanted the chicks. The Dixie Chicks.”

“As merry as the day is long.”

“Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.”

“Alex gazed at her. Her mouth was slightly open; she ran her fingernail against her lower teeth as she thought. She'd knotted her hair at the nape of her neck again, and a strand had slipped loose onto her shoulder, gleaming in the lantern light. Suddenly all of his objections seemed meaningless. Don't, he thought. You'll regret it. He didn't care anymore. Slowly, unable to stop himself, he reached out and cupped his hand around her foot.”

“I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.”

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

“Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.”