My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.

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.

What are we artists for? We are for showing you what you've wandered for to find the home of your spirit...

All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

Emptiness is not the opposite of existence. It is not nothingness or annihilation.

My presidency is not over. I've got another five years coming up.

They say a wise man learns from others mistakes, I learn from others success, why pay attention to the mistakes?

Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.

I'm coming for you. I'm coming home, I'm coming to clean

God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder.

Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being.

I didn't know children's songs could be this deadly.