Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of help.

She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it.

Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.

How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.

She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind. And the winner is... seventy-three!

Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the winner.

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.

My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.

Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.

John Brennan has been the mastermind of the drone program. He's the one who'd convene the terror Tuesday meetings at the White House.

Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.

We [The Replacements] formed as a rock and roll band, and that was the path we chose to take. Whenever we deviated from it we felt, unless everybody was into it, there was tension.

I just figured if I'm going to call myself a songwriter throughout my life, then writing for most genres of music is something I should at least attempt.

What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.

The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop.