Cry your guts out because nothing is sadder than an adult who forgets how to be a child.

Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.

My father moved out a week later. I hugged him at our front door and couldn't bear to watch him leave with so much luggage.

All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.

Adults were constantly auditioning, but for what?

Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.

I asked you to marry me – and you laughed. You thought I was joking. In fairness, I was still dressed as a Cavalier.

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.

Never think I'm worried about losing sales by speaking out for human rights + gun control. I'd rather be broke than corrupt.

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea.

One of the many things I want to do is dig us out of that hole so that guys, in particular, can go: "Oh, yeah. Those people are really funny. I've seen that person. It's a woman. They are funny."

Growing the mycelium of the Chaga mushroom under laboratory conditions provides an ecologically friendly alternative supply of this unique medicinal mushroom.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.

I dropped out of Reed College [Portland, Oregon] after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?