My mother was lost to me, but I wasn’t lost. She had anchored me, to Amma, my father, Link, Gatlin, before she left. I felt her in the streets, my house, the library, even the pantry.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.

You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.

Dig deep. Find your way to your soul.

It’s funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it.

You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.

You climbed into my window in the middle of the night. So, either you're some kind of Vampire or some kind of Perv. Which is it?

I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid.

Got it. Demon. Death. Doom.

The guy thought he was Mick Jagger. I felt bad for him.

No matter how tall and wide darkness is, it cannot block the stars.

Freeze when you are angry: your brain needs time to cleanse the anger!

Thank you. For being willing to talk. For not turning me in. For... being you.''I'm pretty good at being me, ' I said. 'I've had all these years to practice--I hardly ever get it wrong these days.

A fool is someone who wants you to apologise for your intelligence -rassool jibraeel snyman

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

It means a lot to me to have my kids like what I do. And that's why I limit them. But I don't want to put that pressure on them to be a fan of mine.

...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less.

Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant.

Antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.