Always live your life with your biography in mind, " Dad was fond of saying."Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about.""Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre.

How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.

One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow-A Collector's Dream.

The love of books was an instant connection, and a true boon for a girl who tended toward shyness, because it was a source of endless conversation.

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.

I don't want to hurt i will not hurt. don't hurt me.Its is really easy to hurt somebody but make her feel unique feel special feel alive this worth more then any of the richness in the world.

I'm in San Francisco because of the energy, the ideas, and the fact that this is a great place for me to land. When I'm traveling and working nationally, I love coming back here.

Great is the man who can overcome the world, but greater still is the man who can overcome himself, for he will have the world spinning on the palm of his hand.

A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean.

I think in general in my teens I had a lot of crushes on men on the Internet, most notably Momus since I was in my late teens. John Darnielle was also another big crush.

You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves

If you took a little of Sam Cooke and a little of Little Richard, and poured it in a jar and shook it up and poured it out you would get Otis Redding.