I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.

I want to be violated by insight.

We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

If you Love all Life you observe, you will observe all Life will Love.

Boys have said in the past that I live my life like a movie. I love all things romantic, like kissing in the rain.

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.

Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.

I just often find myself getting shrill, angry and the jokes get more incredulous.

America is a constipated nation.... If you pass small stools, you have to have large hospitals.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

They can do all because they think they can.