You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.

"This is me, remember!" retorts Suze. "I know what you're like! You used to throw all your bank statements into the trash and hope a complete stranger would pay off your bills!" This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.

Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be.

All this time, I wasn't hungry for success, I was hungry.

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

They said I was a valued customer. Now they send me hate mail.