Quotes from Tim Tharp

Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.

It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.

That's how it is online—there's no time in cyberspace. It's almost like everything physical evaporates, and it's just your mind and the different sites floating in a void.

Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.

Childhood was a fantastic country to live in.

Just remember this- weird's good. Embrace the weird, dude. Enjoy it because it's never going away.

She's drenched and bedraggled, but I've never loved anyone as much as I love her right now. That's how I know I'll have to give her up.

See, I do have a future to give her after all, just not one that includes me.

She's different from the girls I'm used to dating. She doesn't get tired of my stories and jokes or expect me to start reading her mind. She doesn't want me to dress better or put highlights in my hair or serious up. I'm not a lifestyle accessory to her. I'm a necessity. I'm the guy that's going to crack open her cocoon. She doesn't need to change me - she needs me to change her. At least until her little butterfly wings get strong enough to fly away.

We're not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We're not even the Next-New-Thing Generation. We're the Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Kids, and we've crowded in here to hide from the future and the past. We know what's up – the future looms straight ahead like a black wrought-iron gate and the past is charging after us like a badass Doberman, only this one doesn't have any letup in him.

To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

You're nothing but a product. And what's this product called? Emptiness, dude, that's what it's called. And for the rest of your life, they sell you over and over, right to the end when they package you one last time and plant you in the ground.

Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good.

You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.

I don't believe in that - the husband and wife having to be just alike. I think it's better if they kind of offset each other. Like if they have these different dimensions they can bring to each other.

It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.

They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.

Beauty's all around me right here. It's not in a textbook. It's not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight … The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.

That type of dream just kind of wears out with time like a favorite old T-shirt. One day, it's nothing but tatters and all you can do is throw it over on the rag pile with the others.

Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren't really waving at you, so you abort and go for a head scratch instead? That's how I felt.

She might be the only girl I've ever met who still hasn't learned to sacrifice bodily comfort for fashion's sake.

Finally, she's like, "I know it looks bad right now, but parents are just people. They don't always know what to do. That doesn't mean they don't love you.

it's fine to live in the now. but the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. i'm going to start making them count.

Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.