If you try to avoid every instance of peer pressure you will end up without any peers whatsoever, and the trick is to succumb to enough pressure that you do not drive your peers away, but not so much that you end up in a situation in which you are dead or otherwise uncomfortable. This is a difficult trick, and most people never master it, and end up dead or uncomfortable at least once during their lives.

I do think of emotions as being on a circular path, so you can feel terrible and terrible and terrible, and then all of a sudden it becomes quite funny.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

It's funny, particularly when you're a writer and you're doing well, you have that sense of like, "Oh! My view of the world is the one that's going to be published."

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does