But one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork. And I can’t help people eat cereal any longer.

I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?

Then the nurse did turn to glance, and then stare—actually stare—at me. His look made me feel as if I was green, or whistling, or dead.

It's true what they say, that a baby gives you a reason to live. But also, a baby is a reason that it is not permissible to die. There are days when this does not feel good.

He is my unicorn, though... That's how I felt falling in love with him, as if I'd found a creature of myth.

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I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.

The time for crying with your girlfriends about a broken heart is over chocolate ice cream and chick flicks—not stun guns and bulletproof vests.

Maybe the best thing you'll ever do, you haven't even thought of yet.

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.

Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

A man that's fond precociously of stirring , :;:; Must be a spoon.