I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who decide to die?

When you love your work, it works better.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable.

I've met a lot of pin-up girls, but I've never been able to pin one down

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12

The sky isn't falling.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.