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.

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.

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.

..."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.

Even when your life is full of color, you still need to be reminded that things come in black and white.

The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

The hardest thing about going to college should not be paying for it.

I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.

She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.

The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.

I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.

I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures.