I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...

... waiting for the spell to end, as all spells must.

Beauty really has to do with the way a person carries it off

I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always.

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up & do them

Of course I miss [drugs]. And anyone who tells you they don't is lying.

I think it's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change.

The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement [P and not Q] and the statement [Q and not P].

Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of any soldier for his weapon or any part of his equipment.

... the kids do what no one expects them to do. That's progress.