I'll always write about what's going on in my life and the reason for that is it's not actually because I'm so… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I think…Have I given up anything by living with another person? Has there been a trade-off? Always, there is a trade-off. And… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I've overcome a lot - sexual abuse, death of a loved one, bad parents and experienced life. My nature is such I… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“we were particles that came together to form into star after star after star until almost forever passed, and instead of a… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
No matter how huge your loss, as long as you remain engaged with your life, the best days of your life may… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“All improvements, transformations, achievements, liberations; everything you want to change about yourself and your life; everything you want to make happen, any… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“That may be true," I thought, "But they don't have digital cable or Internet access, so really what's the point of being… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“When you have a blueprint for what happiness is, lay it over your life and see what you need to change so… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Miracles do happen. You must believe this. No matter what else you believe about life, you must believe in miracles. Because we… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I don't worry about anything in the Internet age. I have been online since I was aware of it: 1985 in San… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Truth is accuracy. Without accuracy, you can't expect to manifest large, specific changes in your life.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you.… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I've learned how to turn the adversities in my life into enriching experiences. You can actually gain a lot from adversities and… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
There is nothing about myself that I wouldn't reveal or write about. I don't care how horrendous or ridiculous I may appear in person… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“You must hang onto the scraps of the bucking moment as if your sanity and life depended on it - because actually they do.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
If you hate your life, you haven't' seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think part of the reason I'm attracted to Foster is because he's such a mess. I mean, the people I have loved in… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“On typical days, (dust) is simply irritating. On Roid Rage days, it made me want to stomp down to the highway, pull drivers out… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Nothing surprises me now," I tell him. I am stoic. I am Joan of Arc, with liver damage and an unused penis.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
