I am the kind of person who, if my feelings are unrequited, can completely detach from someone emotionally if I simply put my mind to it.

If you believe in yourself and work hard, your dreams will come true

If you believe in yourself and work hard, your dreams will come

If you've got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it? Flaunt it. 'Cause what are we even doing here if we're not flaunting it?

What I didn't need was some hot-and-cold long-distance flake wasting my time. It hurt my feelings and made me feel like something was wrong with me.

I'm the kind of person who becomes silent when I get scared, because I hope Death will not notice me if I am very still and very quiet. It has worked well so far.

I lost my mind. I lunged at him and inhaled all of his fries standing up a foot away from the trash can. No food is as delicious as food you eat standing a foot away from a trash can. Ask any possum.

There is a certain type of greasy hair that you get only when you are writing with no breaks.

Just bear a passing resemblance to a fictional romantic trope I like and I will love you forever. We're all just trying to find the Mark Darcy of our workplace, aren't we?

I don’t really like organizations where people are “deemed” things.

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

To be universally liked is to be relatively ignored.

Quite literally, you would not have put your shirt on him two weeks ago.

Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else.

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?

It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air.