We have to divide mother love with our brothers and sisters. Our parents can help us cope with the loss of our dream of absolute love. But they cannot make us believe that we haven't lost it.

I think I'll move to Australia.

Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel.

Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.

READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in the 9th inning, and as beautiful as the best sunset you ever saw.