the way out is through love

"Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention?"

- Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind

"Are you doing something dirty? Are you doing something your parents don't know about? Are you breaking the law? Are you breaking the rules?"

- The Boat That Rocked

"You should be taking notes here, Lucas. You need to be more of a bitch yourself, you're too nice. You see, we're not here to save people, we're here to destroy them."

- The Good Heart

“Do or do not, there is no try.”

- Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back

"One of the things you learn from years of dealing with drug people, is that you can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug. Especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye."

- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

"I can look forward to the things I want to do in my life. Bike, eat, drink, talk. Ride the subway, read, read maps. Make maps, make art. Finish the Gates application. Tell my dad not to stress about it. Hug my mom. Kiss my little sister. Kiss my dad. Make out with Noelle. Make out with her more. Take her on a picnic. See a movie with her. See a movie with Aaron. Heck, see a movie with Nia. Have a party. Tell people my story. Volunteer at 3 North. Help people like Bobby. Like Muqtada. Like me. Draw more. Draw a person. Draw a naked person. Draw Noelle naked. Run, travel, swim, skip. Yeah, I know it's lame, but, whatever. Skip anyway. Breathe... Live."

- It's Kind Of a Funny Story

"If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up."

- Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

"The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions. Facing the blind death stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head. "

- Into the Wild

"Once you know something like that, you can't unlearn it."

- Last Night

"So... ya wanna see Andy? Anybody gotta flashlight and a couple of shovels? "

- Man on the Moon

"Your love glass is half full."

- Paper Heart

"I wasn't trying to wreck Candy's life. I was trying to make mine better."

- Candy

"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome."

- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

"You will not be remembered if you die now. You'll be buried and mourned by a few and what more can you ask for? The world will spiral from underneath you and you are either too smart or too dumb to find God. Maybe you are angry. Only because the way out is through love. And you are just horny and lonely."

- Twelve

"My mother is worried I have mental problems. I found a book about teenage paranoid delusions during a routine search of my parents' bedroom."

- Submarine 

"Like ants making thunder."

- Taking Woodstock

"When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age they would say we can become cops, or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?"

- The Departed

"All these years, all these memories, there was you. You pull me through time."

- The Fountain

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."

- When You're Strange