I don't think they're terrible parents. They love us. I think they're negligent parents. That's not the same thing.

Didn’t anyone ask you where your parents are?""They asked. Especially about my parents.""What did you tell them?""I said I ate them.""Jesus, Rosa.

Killing things shouldn't make you happy, Rosa. That's why they're worried.

Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates.

She promised to be good. She wasn't.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Stephanie took another puff from her candy cigarette, reached into her purse, brought out the rest of the pack, and said, "Want one of these damned cigarettes?

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.

I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood.

Hillary is in Iowa to listen to what the people are saying - because if you want her to speak, that will cost you $200,000. So she's there listening.

I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

The message we have internalized is clear - we are what we do and what we own, not what we are inside ourselves. Where it counts!

Stategy in Iraq- defeat al-Qaeda; limit Iran's influence.

It is better to be the cause of an effect rather than be the effect that was caused.