Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.

Dostoevski informs everybody; or he ought to.

Good literature makes your head throb heartlike

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.