“Your past doesn't dictate what your future will be.”

“Elsewhen -- anyplace but here, any time but now, because the Future just isn't what it used to be. Neither is the past.”

“Sometimes people will hear you and be able to change their behavior, but often their behavior has more to do with their own need for approval than with your need for support. No matter what their response, you need to be firm and hold your ground. At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.”

“And even if it wasn't Madison, it had been hundreds of others and probably hundreds more. That's what happens to your eyes when you spend your nights in the laps of everyone else's husbands.”

“A rose by any other name would likely be "deadly thornbearing assault vegetation.”

“Learning is a journal not a destination”

“The only nightmare I could remember was from when I was a very small child, maybe three or four years old. Cookie Monster from Sesame Street had been babysitting me and kept chasing me around the house calling me 'Cookie'. I was trying to focus on it, but at sixteen years old, it was funny to me now.”