Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?

There’s no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down and get out of the way than it is to get clobbered by some parental tidal wave.

Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.

Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.

Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.

There's nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive.

It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.