That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. I think I would have more fun chopping thistles with a butter knife.

As a very young person, I was ready and willing to explore and try new things, unhampered by the daily routines that adults so often feel obligated to adhere to.

It's a wonder Hell don't open up and swallow her as the highlight of the service.

You'll never avoid every mistake. All you can do is try to do your best and live with the consequences.

Stephanie took another puff from her candy cigarette, reached into her purse, brought out the rest of the pack, and said, "Want one of these damned cigarettes?

To do something you're afraid of, especially for the sake of somebody else, is the very definition of courage.

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

Because there wasn’t enough time to play 54

Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.

In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it.

We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.

You've probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind of you and you can't breathe. That's how I felt.

I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.