Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?

I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion and ask, "Where'd she go?" and I have to say, "I'm down here.

I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.

I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.

I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.

I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.

'Mallory, ' he used to say, 'When a woman who can break you in half tells you that you're hers, you nod and agree.'

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.

If you heard my records and no one told you, I don't think you'd know whether it's a band or one guy.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

I think it's just entertainment for people that are interested in the form. To sing along to and be psyched by.

It was very interesting [book Fast Food Nation] because all my friends who were in college, [and] this book became almost mandatory for them to read.

The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.