Are you listening, little bird?

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

He stared at his hot chocolate like it held the secret to the universe.

Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.

True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.

The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!

There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold.

People are so... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something that can be understood.

I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe.

Never depend on one action.

If you are not consciously directing your life, you will lose your footing and circumstances will decide for you.

Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.

Their rage supplies them with weapons.