“You can do terrible things when you don’t know who you are.”

If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work?

There was less than I’d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled ‘DEAD SPIDERS.’ As if I hadn’t always known it was there. As if I wouldn’t want to look at dead spiders.

Gratuity’ in written Boovish has seventeen different bubbles that all have to be the right size and in the right place.

The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much.

Is there a short-eared koobish, then?’ Mmmyes …’ said J.Lo. ‘But it is technically not really a koobish. Is more alike a kind of singing pumpkin.’ We had conversations like these all the time, where I just eventually gave up.

Doug stiffened. Jay sounded crazy. Doug tried looking extra sane to even things out.

They can’t expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, ‘I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.’ What does that even mean?

We found the bathrooms, which were labeled ‘Aliens’ and ‘Femaliens.’ ‘Finally,’ I said to J.Lo. ‘Here’s a bathroom you’re allowed to use.

I’ve been punched by a vampire, an Indian girl, and a panda… I should be a video game.

What part of Canada are you from, honey?” “THE LEFT PART,” said Jay.

…Almost everything inside was filled with sugar, cheese, and weight-loss tips.

J.Lo’ in written English only has three letters, and you still spelled it ‘M-smiley face-pound sign.

The Boov frowned. ‘Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work.

Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren’t.

Get off of the car,’ J.Lo huffed. ‘I am an English superstar.’ Uh-uh. There’s no comparison. ‘

YOU have no room to laugh, that’s all. I’m not doing any worse with Boovish than you did with English.’

The essence of spirituality is the duty to live to its full the glorious destiny of being human.

Being such a tomboy growing up, that was one thing that changed me as a person, as well. It broadened me, like me cracking myself open in a certain way.

For me, being onstage for an hour and a half, my confidence was really huge for me. Doing eight shows a week for a run.

Be yourself. Don’t pretend that you know something you don’t.

All human beings have a right, and duty, to be joyful. Anything that thwarts this spiritual human right goes against the very purpose of human being.

We must not rest until right livelihood is within reach of every human being upon this earth we love and cherish.

The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.