I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful.

Sometimes the way to do what you hope to do will be clear cut, and sometimes it will be almost impossible to decide whether or not you are doing the correct thing, because you'll have to balance your goals and hopes with feeding yourself, paying debts, finding work, settling for what you can get.

America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.

When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.

You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it’s trying to escape because it doesn’t belong to me any more. It belongs to you.

I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.'