I mean, you know how it is. You chase a bottle of sleeping pills with a bottle of Jack Daniel's and life's never the same, no matter how many times you try to tell people it was just an accident.

The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.

If I can do things right, I don't see why everyone else can't.

I elbow my way through the mass of people to get to my locker because there's something immensely satisfying about the toughest part of my arm connecting with the softest part of everyone else.

I half-expect to check out, but I'm really there for it. It's not like at the dance, angry and forced. It's terrible in its gentleness and he's just wasting it on me.

A poem is its own name and cover.

You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.

I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter.

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

Everyone wants to change, but change demands desire and discipline before it becomes delightful. There is always the agony of choice before the promise of change.

I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.

If I am not working, I won't wear makeup and I will wear flats.

No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.