Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?

Life is constantly teaching us that we are mirrors of one another and that no one is an island!

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

If one really believes that the metaphysic one adopts has much to commend it, then one should obviously try to persuade others of its truth or acceptability!

I long for the days of good honest crooks.

In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.

I find it very difficult to do normal things without getting approached.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.