"When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned."

“I'm always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. January 26, 2011.

“Starving for a high, a place to hang out inside my own head. Starving for touch. Pain, even. A way to feel. I need to feel.”

“Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the outset, and whose desirability is established on the bottom line at the outset. Neither I nor anyone else visualized an extensible editor until I had made one, nor appreciated its value until he had experienced it. EMACS exists because I felt free to make individually useful small improvements on a path whose end was not in sight.”

“Risk-taking is the essence of innovation.”

“It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.”

Source : John Lanchester (2010). “I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

“Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult.”

“Henry shrugged. "I've kissed plenty of girls." "I'm not talking about your mom,dork.”