“It is difficult to create a budget for life when we all cash out the same. Corpses have no currency." -The Years Before My Suicide”

“I am sitting here at thirty-six feeling like I am responsible for the holocaust for all that is toxic and wrong. Maybe its because I eat meat, and I stepped on three ants last Tuesday.”

“I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more th...”

“Finally, I applied to one of my roommates, more sagacious than the rest, for advice. Dave, I said. Im broke and without prospects. Ive blown my GI Bill on flying lessons. I cant hide out here in co...”

“Top 15 Things Money Cant BuyTime. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.”

“In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.”

“You don't know when you're twenty-three.You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're goin...”

“Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.”

“We are in the era of dysfunctional relationships.”

“No mean person is mean all the time. The whole point of being mean is to fluctuate so that you can hold out the hope for someone. So someone will hold out the hope that they're gonna catch you on t...”

“A woman in Charlotte approached me and said that shes tired of the dysfunction in my novels. I told her I was sorry, but that is how the world has presented itself to me throughout my life.”