I think part of the reason I'm attracted to Foster is because he's such a mess. I mean, the people I have… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Unconditional love. That's what this is. I love him, as is, fully. I've had to stop arm wrestling with the facts. Why… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“To nobody’s surprise, steroid use is common among gay men. When you combine a love for men with a love for drama,… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Most of us have love in our lives. Most of us love other people are are ourselves loved by others. But make… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“If you have one parent who loves you, even if they can't buy you clothes, they're so poor and they make all… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Maybe it was a Patty Hearst thing. Stockholm syndrome or whatever it's called when you're being held against your will but then… — 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
Most everybody had made at least one bad, drunken decision in their lives. Called an ex at two in the morning. Or… — 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
