I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

Mutually assured destruction.

I survive at the edge of friends circles.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.

I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile.

I got bored, " he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

Making heroes out of celebrity CEOs is at the heart of the crisis in corporate leadership.

My heart faint not. The Lord will strengthen my spirit.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step unless you missed it.

If you're looking for sympathy, you'll find it in the dictionary, somewhere between 'shit' and 'syphilis'.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

I would never say never to marrying again but for the time being I'm having a great time.

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

My personal style is kind of tomboy-boho chic! Sort of funky but simple.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.