You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

I write to make sense of my life."-John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.

The Left corrupts everything it touches

My name is George Smoot III, and I AM smarter than a fifth-grader.

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

I don't make promises, by and large, that I can't keep.

True lovers are as rare as true rebels.

To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women.

I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour.