"Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?"

“I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are greed, hatred and delusion. Well, delusion is not much mentioned in the Christian tradition. In the West, we have underplayed the idea that our moral and spiritual troubles have to do with a lack of clarity or insight because original sin has dominated so much of our thinking. We tend to think that our troubles are caused by insufficient will power.”

“I just get excited... like a painter with a blank canvas.”

“The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.”

“Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.”

“I have the mouth of a sailor.”

“What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.”

“Scheduling is always tough, no matter what the budget size is, and we had our own run-ins with that on Fading of the Cries.”

Source : "Exclusive: Thomas Ian Nicholas Talks FADING OF THE CRIES and AMERICAN REUNION". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2011.

“I'm a vegan, but you can be really unhealthy as a vegan, too.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.