The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.

I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.

Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!

Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.

There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out.

I hate clowns. You can't see what they're thinking.

What people don't understand, they laugh at.

He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.

If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness

We built that Wendy House our own selves, for Wendy! And you can't keep a Wendy out of her own Wendy House!

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

I believe in forgiveness.

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

Its a war zone. Terrible things happen.

When your trying to be an adult in a relationship you seriously don't need to lie or front and try to put on this big picture or pseud like your something that your not.

There are so many people with all kinds of lucky things happening to them, and they don't know how to use it.

There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.

I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.

It's not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.

You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees