Why isn't there a book about someone losing their faith and it being a beautiful experience?

If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every single one, has had the exact same common denominator: accepting what was true over what I wished were true.

Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit ... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.

sometimes it's in your limitations that you find your greatest strengths.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not ashamed of my body, I just don't see any reason to not cover it up as much as possible. ... I'm someone who considered becoming a nun, for the outfit.

Losing my faith was the most spiritual thing that ever happened to me.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go.

I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

I learned that being a mother takes a lot of energy.

Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.

I am interested in challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable.

Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.

I use all different kinds of techniques for all different types of music. The music dictates the style.

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

God accepts us unconditionally, and in his view we are all precious and priceless. Focus on this and you will not waste any time and effort trying to be someone you're not.

You I expected better of." He turned his swirling sliver gaze from Sam to Dev and Fang. "You two not so much." -Acheron

Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.