“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear.”

“The fact is, I love him. He's the boy I want and one day he'll be MINE.”

“Cal: Yesterday I was stuck in a car with you for eight hours. Bastard. I didnt even sing along with the radio. Much.Me: Yeah. And? Cal: Something happened.Me: If youre referring to my driving skill...”

“Cal: Im not presuming. I know exactly what you think about me. You think Im an anal-retentive Armrest Nazi . . . an arrogant Modelizer. You cant stand the way I talk, any of the subjects I choose t...”

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”

“But mom's been depressed ever since her last boyfriend turned out to be a Republican.”

“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.”