No, we can't be friends. You're my mom. You're what i talk to my friends about.

Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink.

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting.

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

We have to remember that progress isn’t just a straight line upwards, O.K.?It’s a weird roller coaster where sometimes you’re screaming for joy, and other times you’re barfing in your own face.

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'

Lack of compliance is hindering the investigation.

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs.

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.

Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.

It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.

I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.