It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.

I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food.

He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.

The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck.

A piece of me is gone, " she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.

I remember passion.

Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you.But no one does.

Sometimes you don't let us talk about how we're feeling. If we feel scared, you say, 'Nothing to worry about, guys, ' but that doesn't make it go away. It makes it grow.

You blame me for this, don't you?" he says."I don't need to. You're doing a better job.

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.

A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.

It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.

Dreams are the result of a million choices, a billion failures, and a few successes.

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

Good times don't last long sometimes.

Well, I like shopping.

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.