How can you possibly believe he really loves you?” Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittier’s hand.“You have no choice,” Mr. Whittier tells her. “If you need to be loved.

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.