I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too.

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.

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

Forgive yourself and you will be happy. Forgive everything and you will be happiest.

I thought of the old proverb: Where there are three physicians, there are two atheists.

I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.

I brush my teeth with a Sonicare toothbrush before every show.

Every one stretcheth his legges according to his coverlet. [Every one stretches his legs according to his coverlet.]

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.

O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see.

He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles.