But I know how this romantic stuff works: one girl's perfect guy is another girl's reject. And right now I'm glad of it.

I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that's exactly like being found.

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

Sometimes people say that kids with autism aren't capable of love. That's ridiculous. My son loves deeply. He's just doesn't communicate well.

Every guy seems nice until he’s not.

..."And then we played Ping-Pong—” “Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man—I mean, it’s so handy the way he keeps a stick up his—

Value people because of who they were deep down, not because of their names or their parents’ clout.

I was isolated but not ostracized, ignored but not abused.

Basically, the world is a giant shithole. But some of us are capable of imagining something better.

Juliana's a year older than me, but she sometimes seems younger - mostly because she's the opposite of cynical and I'm the opposite of the opposite of cynical.

He can’t ground her if he’s already killed her,” I pointed out when Juliana quoted this to me. “Well, he can, but it wouldn’t have the same impact.

Pray and read your Bible daily. God has all the answers you seek

Each story provides a beginning, a middle and an end, the trick is, never seperate them through the chapters or you'll miss the meaning of the entire book.

There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.

Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer.

Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

From birth to death man is a long sleep, sometimes dreaming with eyes closed, sometimes dreaming with eyes open, but dreaming all the same, all the time.

We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.

I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.