“Liminal sucks. You can't grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can't make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the in-betweens. You can only hang in there, and get through them.”

“When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.”

“You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn.”

“Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.”

“You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.”

“Sometimes you can't make it.
The best you can do is to fake it.
Sometimes you can't make it on your own.”

“You can't make poetry simply by avoiding clichés.”

“You can't make people love you but you can make them fear you”

“If you can't get in shape in 24 months, then maybe you should hit the road.”

“You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.”