I’m not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools, run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism.
I’m failing in my sleep. That’s all I do. It’s all I’ve ever done is fail her again and again.[to Tommy]
You’re going to fail a lot before things work out. Even though you’ll probably fail over and over and over again… You have to try every time. You can’t quit because you’re afraid you might fail.
You got to love your way through the failures. You never know if you’re in the last one till you’re in it.[to Ainsley]
Will someone mute the goddamn news? If I want a list of my failures, I’d dig up my mother.
We’re not stuck in here because we’re failures. We’re in here because no one else would even try. [to Harry]
We have to celebrate our failures.
We do not always accomplish what it is we set out to do.
To doubt it is a failure of more than the imagination. It is a failure to recognize the limits of our own stupidity, the nascency of our science, the rudiment of our tools.
They only put ordinary failures on TV nowadays. It makes the ads look better.
There’s no greater failure than a parent outliving a child. Because it’s the one failure that you just can’t ever overcome. Ever.[to John]
There are two paths to revenge. One is failure. The other will set you free at your journey’s end.
