"I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby."

“It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time.”

“I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And so it seemed normal to study both fiction writing and the literary essay as an undergrad.”

Source : "Go Forth (Vol. 41)". Interview with Kristen Evans, logger.believermag.com. February 26, 2016.

“Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly.”

Source : Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

“I think one of the most pivotal moments in modern American history was Donald Trump's immediate withdraw from TPP.”

“When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.”

“The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.”

“Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities. Now and then I have, for my books or myself, been somewhat warmly denounced -- there was one good pastor in California who upon reading my Elmer Gantry desired to lead a mob and lynch me, while another holy man in the state of Maine wondered if there was no respectable and righteous way of putting me in jail.”

“Every person in therapy has a love disorder.”

Source : John Dufresne (2008). “Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel”, p.140, W. W. Norton & Company