“Halls are full of strangers, even when you recognize the faces.”

“Stay inside your head long enough and you may get trapped there.”

“We are flawed creatures with explosive feelings that subconsciously aspire to be non-violent sociopaths.”

“Art does what reality cannot.”

“Life is like a dry handjob. Just when it starts getting good, it’s already over.”

“Success is seasonal.”

“I tell Esther she should ease up on lard. There's no need to mix lard in with Scottie's rice, chicken, and beans. I tell her she hasn't read the blogs. I've read the blogs. I know what Scottie shou...”

“I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I'd rather th...”

“Blogs are assailed on all sides, by the crushing economics of the business, dishonest sources, inhuman deadlines, pageview quotas, inaccurate information, greedy publishers, poor training, the dema...”

“Well, spit on my empty grave--if it ain't the attack of the Disney princesses!”

“Im a starving child trying to stuff my stomach, gorging my senses on the decadence of these moments as if Ill wake up in the morning and realize Im still sweeping cinders for my stepmother.But then...”

“But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”