I didn't just want to be the one who was always looking around at the weird family members. I wanted to make my mistakes.

I'm the luckiest unlucky person.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.

I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.

Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.

When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

I didn't know whether I'd be attractive to anybody.

I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.

I hated goodbyes. It felt like I had to give so many of them away lately.

Do close your mouth. You look like a cow that's being artificially inseminated.

Police officers seem nice until they start targeting you for stops, give you a bogus speeding ticket and write fake police reports about their interactions with you

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.

For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.

I can't imagine any one more delightful to sit and talk with about movies on a regular basis.

Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.