After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece.

You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.

Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience ever. I guess what I'm saying is that not everybody should have children.

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

As every so-called creative spirit soon learns, the rest of the world doesn't particularly give a damn.

She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments to an endless search for meaning.

I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.

I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.

Maybe this is who I really am.Not a loner, exactly.But someone who can be alone.

I heard wordOf bellied sailcloth, Creak of oars, And gold in Eastland.Then I smelledA smell remembered:Salt of sprayAnd black-pitched boat's keel.

Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn't eat it a day before and you can't eat it a day after; it's just about today

I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time

Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

Your emotions are making it difficult for you to accept hard decisions.

You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.

Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us.