“Everybody screws up, ... Remember that. The trick is to realize it and start fixing the screwup.”

“Love is very different from like, ... Like has reasons and logic,... it makes sense.”

“I'm friggin' awesome! So screw the haters!”

“In compulsively keeping myself out of view, I was participating, without realizing it, in a rich New York tradition. Loners and shut-ins and hermits are what keep New York City from imploding. If all the people who never leave their apartments in New York City suddenly left their apartments, the city's infrastructure would crumble.”

“It is slightly chilling to realize there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture, and exploit those down here among us who are irrational and can barely cope. If you want to know how stupid you’re perceived to be by the people up there, count the unsolicited junk mail you receive. If you get a lot, you’re perceived to be alluringly stupid.”

“HOLLOW-TOOTH SYNDROME: Compulsion to torture oneself mentally, based on the fact that nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ”

“Pop used to say no one knows more tricks than a country midwife." - Verna Krone, The Blue Orchard”