But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.

We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.

The monster nevers dies.

The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary

...it was amazing, wasn't it, how bad you could hurt when there was nothing physically wrong.

She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.

I would rather live a joyful simple life, doing what I love, than to be unhappy and rich.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition!

I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change an idea; changing a belief is trickier.

It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.

I found out I'd been signing my name wrong. You know, like with the alphabet they teach you in preschool. But I think I've got it right now.