but then you realize that this ‘whole package’ everyone’s looking for is unattainable. No one can be everything you want them to be.

The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It’s a vicious cycle.

No one can be everything you want them to be.

I'd rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable.

This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take that away.

It’s unbelievable how you can affect someone else so deeply and never know.

If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?

My thing is that I'm in love with love. Actually, I'm in love with the possibility of true love. Which could be considered a major problem.

Sometimes in the midst of all your boy drama, you just need a cupcake.

Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.

I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma.

Sometimes the walk to the doctors is a better cure than the medicine you receive

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.

Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.

We're going to rebuild America with American workers and American tools.

The true business of every company is to make and keep customers.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.