Value people because of who they were deep down, not because of their names or their parents’ clout.

I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that's exactly like being found.

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

Sometimes people say that kids with autism aren't capable of love. That's ridiculous. My son loves deeply. He's just doesn't communicate well.

Every guy seems nice until he’s not.

But I know how this romantic stuff works: one girl's perfect guy is another girl's reject. And right now I'm glad of it.

..."And then we played Ping-Pong—” “Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man—I mean, it’s so handy the way he keeps a stick up his—

I was isolated but not ostracized, ignored but not abused.

Basically, the world is a giant shithole. But some of us are capable of imagining something better.

Juliana's a year older than me, but she sometimes seems younger - mostly because she's the opposite of cynical and I'm the opposite of the opposite of cynical.

He can’t ground her if he’s already killed her,” I pointed out when Juliana quoted this to me. “Well, he can, but it wouldn’t have the same impact.

Ideals make reason inaccessible.

I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in.

There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.

Answer the big question of eternity, and the little questions of life fall into perspective.

I love the idea of a woman's suit, but I wanted something that was a little easier to wear.

Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.

For when I fool the people I fear, I fool myself as well.

You have to fight because you can't count on anyone else fighting for you. And you have to fight for people who can't fight for themselves. To get anything of real value, you have to fight for it.

Those of you who are strong need to be there for those who have lost someone today. We have to be here for each other right now.

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough