Of course, I got hurt, but I was never afraid.

My mother never warned me not to do this or that for fear of being hurt. Of course I got hurt, but I was never afraid.

How I should despise such a thing if I were a man. What a nose she has! what a chin! what a neck! Then her eyes--and the worst kissing lips in the universe.

If you have life, you have everything.

Every experience is a book to be written.

Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally.

The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patient’s conversion to the therapist’s interpretation.

Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

I'm kind of a weirdo about Krazy Glue. I don't know why, but I always have it in my purse.

Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.

I have no interest in ever making a movie I didn't write. If they were going to take my house away, then I guess I might have to. But my agent knows not to even bother sending me the scripts.

Apparently Sodapop Curtis said "gnarly," and Chris Traeger said "literally." Every decade I have a favorite phrase I can't stop with.