I’ve memorized the best angles in the bathroom mirror from which to see how badly I’ve disintegrated. I truly do go from sixty to zero.

See, that's the thing about L.A.- When you've mastered the art of feeling lonely in a room full of people, that's when you know.

In Los Angeles, everything is 100 percent organic, except the people.

And, to be honest, if weed is a gateway drug, then I really did hop the fence, but sometimes I can't help but miss the sticky-sweet warmth of a good old fashioned hot box.

The idyllic mayhem of two cultures colliding just doesn't seem as funny anymore.

A bag of bones can slip through small cracks in a crowd effortlessly.

In the movies, God is an actor just like everyone else.

If I told you that I imagine love to be a two-way mirror, which side of the mirror would you imagine me standing on?

Beauty is biased, brainless. It says little to nothing about anybody as far as ethics are concerned, so why not monetize it? Give it some value, pin it with a price point. Otherwise, it’s worthless.

I haven’t felt the full weightof the world on my shoulders, and I haven’t experienceda fraction of the painand embarrassment I’ve put out into this great bigwhite world.

I think of drug dealers like I think of my father— never really there when you want them to be.

True intellect is that which resolves issues. All else is excess intellect

It was a light which gave solidity to everything and drew colour out from the heart of objects.

You will never be able to do anything of true value without Christ. Apart from Him all things are meaningless.

We cannot all argue but we can all pray we cannot all be leaders but we can all be pleaders we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric but we can all be prevalent in prayer.

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

If we can possibly avoid wrecking this little planet of ours, we will, But-there must be risks! There must be. In experimental work there always are!

The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.

The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high.

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.

The reason my food bank is vegan is because I can't pay for animal products in good conscience.