“You could do with a day's work, I'd say.”

“I'd fly. I sit and watch the birds go by and say, I wish I could do that.”

“After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do the best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.”

“Candy says
I've come to hate my body
And all that it requires
In this world
...
What do you think I'd see
If I could walk away from me”

“I love to sleep. I'd sleep all day if I could.”

“T were vain to tell thee all I feel,
Or say for thee I'd die.
Ah, well-a-day, the sweetest melody
Could never, never say, one half my love for thee.”

“If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.”

“If I could do it all again, I'd be a farmer.”

“No matter what you work on, you're not working on everything else. So the question is not how to avoid procrastination, but how to procrastinate well. There are three variants of procrastination, depending on what you do instead of working on something: you could work on (a) nothing, (b) something less important, or (c) something more important. That last type, I'd argue, is good procrastination.”

“When I was a kid my dad would say, "Emo, do you believe in the Lord?" I'd say, "Yes!" He'd say, "Then stand up and shout Hallelujah!" So I would … and I'd fall out of the roller coaster.”