I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time.

Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.

If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?

These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.

You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.

In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.

You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.