Toilet paper was either bleached white or unbleached gray, yet there were more than a dozen kinds of ketchup and about 30 brands of cookies. I approved of their priorities.

I was 8, 569 miles away, 37 butt-numbing hours of travel across seven time zones in the last two days, or was it three? Amelia Earhart, eat your heart out.

Slowly, all the days became Saturdays, full of more sunlight than I could remember seeing in a long time.

There I was, poised on the edge of the high diving board of life, and the pool kept moving around.

Every change is a menace to stability.

But when I am due…Keep local the chest to lay rest my simple skins in,

My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.

The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all?

I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day.

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?

To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic doll that escaped from a fire.