“Everyone knows that the teenage years are a time ofprofound emotion. The moody, exuberant, passionate,lethargic teen is a figure that has a special place in the hall of fame of clichsand for good r...”

“Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.”

“We all have a suspicion and hope that we've just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. That no one else knows this makes it seem like we are living with a ...”

“It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.”

“My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.”

“The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.”

“Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending t...”

“Have tea, might write, Laura returned.”

“Pour, varlet, pour the waterThe water steaming hot!A spoonful for each man of usAnother for the pot!”

“Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.”

“Know this: whenever you think of leaving, a part of you has already left. But its never too late to get it back.”

“Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.”