Decisions are beautiful. They are the evidence of thought and care. Decisions are the polishing cloths of life.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

If we truly love ourselves, in spite of our flaws, then we can love others in spite of theirs.

If luck wouldn't find him, he would do his best to make his own.

I live a pretty anonymous life.

I was brought up on the proletarian left, and I remain there. The fair go for workers is fundamental, and I don't believe the free market has a mind.

When you trust the universe, you get to play in the magical world of God's plan.

I want to remind everyone what we're fighting for and who we are fighting for.

Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot.

The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.

If I could be reincarnated as a fabric, I would come back as a 38 double-D bra.

We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.