Maybe what my sister wanted was to stay here and get married and have a family.Maybe that was her color of extraordinary.

She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off of clocks, of cold stones, of shoes filled with nothing but wind.

The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?

Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?

How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?

Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.

I can't shove the dark out of my way.

Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it.

That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.

The coolest guys aren't afraid to be feminists.

You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really, " he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.

The gift of new day is divine.

If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

Ask yourself... If my body were a metaphor for my life, what would the message be?

I am deaf to the word 'no'.

The Jew is an inborn Communist.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

Brexit must mean control of the number of people who come to Britain from Europe, and that is what I will deliver.

The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.