I loved feeling special. I hated feeling special.

Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.

TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle

Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you ignorant peasant.

I want to resume the life of a shy person.

A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.