“Hear folks talkin' about how some of us got the weight of the world on our shoulders? Fuck, maybe we do, but I'll hold onto it. At least it's somethin', you know?”

“It's a new world, sweetie. We build our own destinies.”

“Tell me you'll never lie to me again, and I'll go with you.”

“Why . . . would a penguin be in a piss pot?”

“Enjoy your cinnafucks!”

“Wait, seriously, what's a piss pot?”

“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more complet...”

“All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent”

“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”

“I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.”

“I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.”

“Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.”