My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling.

Any obsession is dangerous.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.

We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.

Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul.

Remember who you are. It's really okay to be who you are.

People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.

I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.

I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.

I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic, right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.

It's late at night when the memory comes for me, like it always seems to when the relief of sleep seems ready to draw me under.

Besides, unrequited love is one of those things that all teen-agers have to go through, right?

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

I've liked the Yankees since I was a kid. I grew up in Canada so I kind of identified with New York sports teams.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

We assume that we have free will and that we make decisions, but we don't. Neurons do. We decide that this sum total driving us is a decision we have made for ourselves. But it is not.

Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.

Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.