I wanted the truth, and I wanted the news, and I'd be damned before I settled for anything less.

The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.

I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way." - Becks

Be good. Be kind to each other. And if there's somebody you love, tell them. The world always needs more love.

I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?

Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you're at a loss.

The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity.

I feel the closest to crazy when I'm disagreeing with the voice in my head

Sorry...I got distracted listening to you and hot glued myself to my unicorn

I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds.

Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having.

Traveling is not a hindrance for me; it's something I actually enjoy.

I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.

I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming to a head.

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.

I may not be playing with a full deck but I don't need a full deck. I have four aces.

In front of the coffee tablethere is a neon-pink stump stool, which I bought because my friend Amanda Brooks told me that every house has to have a 'wart,' or one really ugly piece.

The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.

Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination.

As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.