Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.

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.

The Paradox of Sustenance: For an organism’s life to be continued

I gave up on my looks a long time ago.

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

The most successful and brilliant work a lighting designer can do is usually the least noticeable.

I have Netflix, but I don't watch television.

The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA.

I've had my heart broken one too many times.

Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.

Colleges [have] forfeited the responsibilities of in loco parentis and have gone into the pimping and brothel business.