Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

No matter what happens in your life, keep an open heart and mind with a gentle smile. It's the true beauty of the heart.

A joyful life, life of contentment.

You can't kill me. Even if you could, you can't bring yourself to do it. You'll hesitate. Again.

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

When I got my braces removed, I felt more like a real woman, any traces of my childhood were stripped, just like the cold metal that inhabited my mouth for 2 years.

I believe in science but I also believe in fate.

I was just teasing," I say. "I myself don't like to eat plain butter, but hey, it's a free world.

If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.

I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

How about a cheer for all those bad girls! And all those boys that play that rock 'n' roll! They love it like you love Jesus.