He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.

It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.

I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food.

The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck.

A piece of me is gone, " she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.

I remember passion.

Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you.But no one does.

Sometimes you don't let us talk about how we're feeling. If we feel scared, you say, 'Nothing to worry about, guys, ' but that doesn't make it go away. It makes it grow.

You blame me for this, don't you?" he says."I don't need to. You're doing a better job.

You can run from the grave, but you can't hide.

When the gates of mockery and abuse is opened, the heart becomes a shock absorber

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

I came to love Fenway. It was a place that rejuvenated me after a road trip; the fans right on top of you, the nutty angles. And the Wall. That was my baby, the left-field wall, the Green Monster.

A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.

I hope - I'm a democrat. I'm a democratically elected politician from the Netherlands representing one of the major parties in Holland - I hope that I will be able to talk and to discuss with people.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil.

We have to have more consideration for people who have lesser means than we do. It is a problem of survival.