All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.

Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people.

When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like.

Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.

Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.

Animals were both the lives I took care of and the lives who took care of me.

Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.

I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.

Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them.

While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as any arrow seeking its mark

The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

The Glycemic Index is one the best tools for fat loss. It measures how quickly foods breakdown into sugar in your bloodstream.

That's all it took to solve problems - just sense.

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

Needing people yet being afraid of them is wearing me out.

To get nowhere, follow the crowd.

In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.

Editing is a very tough period. You're confronted with yourself. It's a deep, dark, truthful mirror.

I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.

Theres nothing better than keeping fit. It gives me energy and helps me think more clearly.