God, was I going to have another day of painful thoughts jumping me every time I relaxed? The obvious solution—to just not relax—was kind of sucking.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Are you listening, little bird?

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.

When you love yourself too much, sometimes it becomes a problem, because it gets out of control. if you don't control yourself, you become yourself closest enemy !

[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.

Take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

Now that I am dead, I know everything.

I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now.

Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.