Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.

I'm the luckiest unlucky person.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.

I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.

When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

I didn't know whether I'd be attractive to anybody.

I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time.

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

It is meaningless to rise while leaving others behind! It is also unethical and selfish! If you know the paths to rise, rise altogether with others!

We will never be more than we are meant to be!

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

There is no dogma, there isn't anything about how the universe works.

Christianity is Christ plus nothing!

The more we have the less we own.

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.

Even if we do not always agree on every aspect, nobody should take this as an excuse to declare us as enemies.