Quotes from Adam Levin

Then again, you only live a few times, so why not be happy? Why be hard on yourself? Why be hard on yourself for who you had been in a previous life? Why be hard on yourself for who you had been before you'd understood the laws? Especially when you couldn't—if you were being honest with yourself—you couldn't really be sure you understood the laws now? Like maybe the laws weren't even

and you're at school, busy fighting janitors and vegetables with padlocks…

Watch me like a vulture watches a fat mammal that is limping across the floor of a rocky canyon with its tongue out even though I'm your friend who you would never eat.

The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.

Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything could ever be alright is in fiction. We weep because what we've seen can't be true, no matter how badly we wish it were. We weep at the truth.

If I'd thought she was uninterested, I never would have worried so much - the prospect of screwing something up is much more daunting than that of screwing nothing up. I definitely thought there was something there, and so there was something to lose, you see.

It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.

Books are truer than movies.

You only taste your own dignity right before you puke it up.

Easy as a child breathes a wish at a dandelion...is exactly how hard it would be for me to tear your limbs from their sockets.

Regarding vengeance and arch-enemies, one must not only be timely but prideful, and pride exacts propriety.

Without pain, there is no call for anger, much less rampaging.

I might mention my belief that girls who like Woody Allen movies are nicer girls than girls who don't...

it is good to do justice because God will kill you and your family whether you do justice or not.

Go ahead and flunk me for begging the question, then go ahead and fuck yourself for asking it.

If you know your mom is a great killer, and you think of your mom as a great killer, and you know she would kill for you, not just metaphorically, but really end lives for you, without hesitation, you don't want to make her sad and worried because how can you repay her for all the things she's willing to do? You can't.

Were there always to be more damage, damage would be an aspect of perfection. We would all be angels, one-legged and faceless, seething with endless, hopeless praise. Bless Adonai for making us better than angels. Blessed is Adonai for making us human.

All the word's indeed a page and we must loudly tear it.

You fucked up,' he said. 'Know that you're someone who fucked up. But know that doesn't make you a fuckup. The difference is a matter of repetition

Since bad timing could mean almost anything, it was a certain kind of truth. A low kind.

Underdog stories are easy to tell. It is best to be suspicious of underdog stories.

Let us be as the Cage has never been able to make us. Let us now all at once face forward in our boxes, still and silent as nightmares. We did.

The goodness of our intentions was in direct correlation to the heights from which we condescended to each other.

We can't just have everything without complications, you and I. There'd be no story without complications. With nothing to overcome, we'd die unstoried deaths.