Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

I'm the luckiest unlucky person.

It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.

I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.

Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.

When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

I didn't know whether I'd be attractive to anybody.

I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time.

That's the thing about rocks--they don't break easily. When I held them, I wanted to be like them-strong and steady, weathered but not broken.

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.

Close your eyes and you will see your dreams, open them and you will see obstacles.

Bucket lists are supposed to be about doing things you've always dreamt about not torturing yourself.

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy [is like]... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments in only small sizes.

I like friends as I like music - when I am in the mood.

Dogs are us, only innocent.

Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite.

On the essentials, unity. On the nonessentials, liberty. In everything, charity.