Somewhere underneath it all, I know he doesn't deserve to take up space in my brain.

Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.

I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma.

No one can save me except myself.

Because my life isn't going to wait around while I figure out how to make it work.

That's the cool thing about having a best friend. They know what your pain feels like already, so you don't have to explain it.

Just because a person chooses to express themselves in an extreme way doesn't mean they have an extreme personality.

She's not going to let go until she sees for herself that there's nothing left to hold on to.

But all I really learned is that money is powerful enough to bend the rules. Rhiannon:0, Dad:1.

I wish my life were a movie and I could take it into the editing room and totally cut this part out. And some other parts. Some other parts definitely need to be cut.

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.

Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

I think some people are really connected to who they were as children. And some people aren't.

Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.

It seems like movies normally take a long time to get made. When you focus on it, and you're waiting for something, it seems to take longer.

In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.

I don't normally look like a twig and I do eat like a pig but the weight has just dropped off me.

Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls.