Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.

People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.

Her voice makes me think of her mouth makes me think of her breath makes me think of her breasts.

Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When I pass people in the hall at work, I get totally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.