On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?

I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?

Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained.

I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.

Our achievements may make us interesting, Tyler, but our darkness makes us lovable.