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Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.
one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.
The life in which nothing happens goes the fastest, because it has no landmarks.
I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.
I know it's hard to not do well at something, and I know it's hard to need help.
As in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever.
He said "cool" like I say a Spanish word when I'm not sure of the pronunciation.
We scarified a mosquito. I bet that's what did it. It was probably a virgin too.
There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.
There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
I was overwhelmed by how military families felt supported and honored by 'Nubs.'
The idyllic mayhem of two cultures colliding just doesn't seem as funny anymore.
Then she'll know I'll want to knock her senseless if she so much as looks at me.
it is amazing how all our paths of rebellion tend to lead us straight back home.
If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.
Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.
What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?
If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.
In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.
Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.
In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.
Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.
Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.
Sometimes I worry I'm writing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' for teenagers, but I'm not.
In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.
I want a man as nice as my retarded dog, but one that doesn't crap on the floor.
Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.
Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.
I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.
'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
A little irreverence is always important to being a columnist. I try to do that.
When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.
The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.
When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.
Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.
Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.
Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
The secret of my vigor and activity is that I have managed to have a lot of fun.