David Levithan Quotes

I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.

I can't sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I'm shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982.

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.

My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate. I can't have a little bit of drugs.

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

As she left my room I knew I should shut up. But you know when you should shut up because you really should just shut up...but you keep on and on anyway? Well, I had that.

If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat, there was no way to be sure of anything he might do.

You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts.

The hand can be quicker than the eye, and the mouth can be quicker than the brain.

If you're going to stop masturbating, you can't taper off. You've got to quit, cold jerky!

The key is to put your outrage in a place where you can get it when you need to, but not have it bubble up so much, especially when you're asked to explain new ideas or explain what you observed two people who share none of your experiences.

There are two areas where you can't stop people misbehaving: eating and sex

It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.'

Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.

Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.

The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.

I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.

I order everything in. I won't save anything until later. I won't have anything to eat today that I might eat tomorrow because I don't trust myself with it at night. I'd be sleepwalking. I could never leave a pint of Haagen Dazs ice cream in the fridge.

We always do what's natural, only sometimes we shouldn't do it.

Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good.

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

Roza, my self-control is ten times stronger than yours." I opened my eyes, shifting to look into his. I brushed his hair back and smiled, certain my heart would expand and expand until there was nothing left of me. "Oh yeah? That's not the impression I just got." "Wait until next time," he warned. "I'll do things that'll make you lose control within seconds.