I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.

I miss the comfort in being sad.

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

Have you ever had a broken heart?

If you get old fashioned enough, you'll always be in style.

But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

If you would but exchange places with the other fellow how much more you could appreciate your own position.

I really love scary movies, so I'm all about Halloween.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

In my adolescence, love, as I think for most of us, was a tremendous focus. I wanted to find the perfect partner. I did and married her.

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model

I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright.

You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.

Unlike men, women got less sentimental as we aged, I was discovering.

Free Tibet before free trade.