But when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too.

Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.

It's love. But it's a different kind, ""Doesn't make it any less love, though.

We share out craziness, our neuroses, our little bit of screwed-up-ness that comes from our family. We share it. And it feels like love.

Funny how you can forget that every family isn't like yours.

What happens to you when you get older? Do you just forget everything from before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?

It'll make you look rugged, ' Mel says.'Because I woke up this morning, ' I say, 'and the one thing I realized I lacked was ruggedness.

I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to live long enough so I can really live.

I love that you're worried, ' she says, 'but you're worried about all the wrong things.

We're each other's questions, aren't we? The question that never gets an answer.

If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them.

How would we get corporate sponsorship if we were just a bunch of thugs?

My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional.

We are so desperate to be in love with someone else that we forget to love ourself...what a tragedy!

But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do.

Listen to Mr. Complacency long enough and he'll convince you that what you really, really need is a nap.

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

We're not meant for happiness, you and I.

I definitely prefer to be in a band. There's too many solo people, and bands are suffering. There's too many great bands that have split up because somebody's got an ego, and then he goes solo.

It takes great generosity to accept generosity.

And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.