Ive just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and Im now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father. – Augusten Burroughs
When people meet me, many times theyre very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and Im not. – Augusten Burroughs
Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting. – Augusten Burroughs
I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didnt have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams. – Augusten Burroughs
The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The African Americans relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allens African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. – Henry Louis Gates
Id like to look like Madonna when Im her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. Ive always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but Im always aware if Im getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum. – Ellie Goulding