I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy...

I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.

No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can.

Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough.

I'm learning how to taste everything.

Why are you being so mean?""Friends tell friends the truth.""yeah, but not to hurt, to help.

Dr. StupidParker says that when I'm sad it really means I'm angry and when I'm angry it really means I'm afraid.

Eating was hard.Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.

Why are you being so mean?”“Friends tell friends the truth.”“Yeah, but not to hurt. To help.

When the point of education becomes the production of credentials rather than the cultivation of knowledge, it forfeits the motive recognized by Aristotle: "All human beings by nature desire to know.

Whatever free time I get, I love to catch news and sports shows.

Owning a newspaper does not confer immunity.

God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.

Sometimes you're only human and you learn.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

Improv requires your audience to be informed about what improv is. With stand-up, anybody can sit down and watch stand-up and laugh at jokes.

And Daniel?" She asked. "Daniel was a player-" "Hey!" "That's what they called the actors." Bill rolled his eyes.

If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.

I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.