Well, duh. You're cuter than she is." He said it like he might say, Grass is green or, Gravity works. Something warm opened up inside my chest. It was a nice feeling.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Are you listening, little bird?

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.

Traditionally, the role of the individual was to conform to the organization. In the future the organization will have to conform to the needs of the individual.

People should try eating no animal products for just one day a week.

It's the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

Most people are terribly afraid of their own sexuality, and one has to respect another person's sadhana, another person's path.

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

I was always shocked in prison because it's a scary place. It's not natural to lock that many people up like that, in such a tiny place. There's something disturbing about it.

I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.

It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.