It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

How it feels like to be normal

I've never been able to grow an organ back, " Lana said. "Last time I tried... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes.

Marcus, even in this darkness, I try to swim back to you.I swear, I do.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Cocaine is like really evil coffee.

The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.

There is no shortage of opportunity. There is only a shortage of those who will apply themselves to the basics that success requires.

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

We are the possibilities and the unshattered dream, we are what gives life magick.