Hello Frances, I have just been to health class, and I was wondering how your feminine parts were developing.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

Never assume the obvious is true.

Loneliness is a funny disease. You don’t realize how badly you’re infected until someone gives you a shot of contentment—and then it wears off

I am foolish in the way distance makes me feel partial.

Don't you understand? I want to spend my life with you. I want you to be there when I go to bed at night and when I wake up in the morning.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

And every human being is precious.

Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.

Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.

Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.