friends are like stars. You do not see all the time, but you know they are there

You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.

We all have ideas about love and death. We keep a close eye out for them our entire lives, seeking one and avoiding the other, knowing all the while that both are mostly beyond our control. It is a both scary and exciting predicament. In the end, it all depends on how you look at it. One thing is for sure; it is never quite what you expect.

We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded somewhere deep in our DNA. So must the desire to revere and envy others we imagine to be better, more accepted, and more popular than we are. The only problem is that the most necessary qualities required to be a celebrity -- self-absorption, egomania, shamelessness -- are the least attractive in a friend.

We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do.

If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.

Issues are like assholes, we've all got one," Pam snipped.