Just this once, let it be easy.

It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.

Looking closer can make something beautiful

Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.

Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share.

...choosing words is harder than I thought.

Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.

Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't.

Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing.

Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!

I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine

If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?

I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion.

When people are talking about you, it means that you exist.

as long as there is a lottery, we the people of the United States must believe in getting something for nothing.

It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain.

I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It was all I asked for, and all I ever got.

Resist the temptation to compare yourself to others. This is crucial in order to be able to manifest whatever you want.

But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddles still bid us defiance, Old questions of Why and of Whence.