You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.

Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience ever. I guess what I'm saying is that not everybody should have children.

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

As every so-called creative spirit soon learns, the rest of the world doesn't particularly give a damn.

She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments to an endless search for meaning.

I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.

I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.

After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece.

Maybe this is who I really am.Not a loner, exactly.But someone who can be alone.

To Be One With The One Is Not For Everyone

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

When you come to a fork in the road, be still, and see with your mind's eye. There you find the clarity you seek.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets

Always entertain the possibility that something, no matter how squiggly and scary looking, might just be good.

Everybody's got brain matter in their hair, and somehow that makes it a very happy workplace.

You know when you hear the 22 suicides a day it's a big part of your question. But when you hear the 22 suicides a day that should never be.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

Be fully awake if you want to dream