How above-the-law children's books are. Hansel and Gretel (littering, breaking and entering), Rumpelstiltskin (forced labor), Snow White (conspiracy to commit murder), Rapunzel (break of contract).

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

It's remarkable the logic we'll build around a misapprehension.

People are less quick to applaud you as you grow older. Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

Francine looked up and mouthed, "Thank you." "any titme, " I lied.

The real proof that I have tried to love and that people have tried to love me back was never going to fit in a kitchen drawer.

It's so clear to me now: the memorizing of a fake prayer, the symbolization of objects, the struggle to relate to the invisible - I needed a religion. I was lost.

Perhaps if I'd had God in my life growing up I would have been able to understand the total and complete unfairness of the universe rewarding mean girls

There is a point in most abusive relationships when it occurs to the beaten party that they are guilty of putting their face in the way of someone else's fist.

Why do people always want to put their hands on vulnerability? I sped up.

love is not boastful. But hate? Apparently hate has a big mouth.

Being gifted means facing the next level of depth without ever being repulsed by the curse that comes with the magic of being different.

Your shield must surpass your weaponry.

Man is so stupid that all his life slips through his hands while trying to understand what the life is!

Don't let other people's opinions distort your reality. Be true to yourself. Be bold in pursuing your dreams. Be unapologetically you!

I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

But my favorite part in my body are my dark circles. They define me. They reveal my melancholy.

I got a smoke alarm at home, but really it's more like a 9-volt-battery-slowly-drainer.