People are less quick to applaud you as you grow older. Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

It's remarkable the logic we'll build around a misapprehension.

Francine looked up and mouthed, "Thank you." "any titme, " I lied.

The real proof that I have tried to love and that people have tried to love me back was never going to fit in a kitchen drawer.

It's so clear to me now: the memorizing of a fake prayer, the symbolization of objects, the struggle to relate to the invisible - I needed a religion. I was lost.

Perhaps if I'd had God in my life growing up I would have been able to understand the total and complete unfairness of the universe rewarding mean girls

There is a point in most abusive relationships when it occurs to the beaten party that they are guilty of putting their face in the way of someone else's fist.

Why do people always want to put their hands on vulnerability? I sped up.

love is not boastful. But hate? Apparently hate has a big mouth.

I thought of the past and how one should have respect for it, like the elderly.

Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!

The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.

Somebody told me I should try writing. Actually, a lot of people tried to get me to try writing, long before I thought I was 'the writing type'.

The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.

Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.

I like bold colors but usually wear black.

The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.

I'll be honest: I was a super-late bloomer, and I was kind of a prude.

It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.

Accept your life and what it brings, I know tomorrow you find better things.