It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.

Diets are essentially training courses in how to feel fat and feel like a failure.

I'm gonna take you right here on this table, Scar, so every time you're sitting here working, all you'll be able to think about is coming apart on my mouth.

Live in the moment but just be mindful that you are working towards something.

Walker's Law: There are few things made harder in this world by having money.

Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.

Have a lot of conversations. Look at the implications of changing, but ultimately, you have to trust your gut. Test your conflicting advice as much as you can through research and conversations.

You're literally sized up with measuring tape as a 13- or 14-year-old girl. I wanted to opt out of that experience.

The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.