Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me.

For some reason, people think I am this terrible person and it really hurts me to hear that. I am just doing the best I know how to.

I'm sick of being accused of gold-digging. It just so happens I get turned on by liver spots.

I've been craving peanut butter-and-mayonnaise fried cheese sandwiches.

I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe and find my own Clark Gable.

I was 23, and he was 86. I saw a very sick man. I just wanted to just talk with him. There was no physical attraction at all. He was very much attracted to me.

I finally feel like I'm becoming somebody. I really think like I can do something. I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.

I can't eat more than six hundred dollars worth of food.

I just feel a connection with Marilyn Monroe. I just love her. I just completely feel what she went through.

Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.

Strange things are always abounding. Watch and discern. There is always a lesson to be learned.

So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.

Once you've been first, it cannot be done again. Not by you, not by anyone else.

When doctors describe pain as experiencing "discomfort," it's like saying Hiroshima experienced "urban renewal".

If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged.

Within chaos lies opportunity.

In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.

'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.