We just did an awesome job of not dying.

...being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it. And I had thought the thought.

I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I don't think it's oh so hard to walk four miles in the snow. I want that. I love that.

and then I couldn't wait anymore, and my hand was on the back of her head, and then her lips on mine, the cold air gone and replaced with the warmth of her mouth, soft and sweet and hash-brown-tastic

We were just standing there, and her eyes were so interesting. Not in the usual way of being interesting, like being extremely blue or extremely big or flanked by obscenely long lashes or anything.

Odo said it all her life. 'Only peace brings peace, only just acts bring justice!

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired.

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

If you spend your life living in fear or doubt, you will never actually live life, and will only be coexisting with the rest of the world.

I like the Moth podcast a lot. I listen to that.

I love cycling, running and swimming. In recent years I've competed regularly in triathlons, which means I don't find the physical side of driving a struggle any more.

I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing, whether autobiographical or novel. There is a self and an other.

There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.