Dennis looked at the puppy in the window. We both did. It was the oddest thing. Normally, puppies in pet store windows… — Augusten Burroughs Cows Copy Share Image
This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them. — Augusten Burroughs Losing Copy Share Image
“His toes wriggle in his socks and my first thought is, I want to snip them off with hedge trimmers. Not only… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Well, you know, just some old man all alone. God, I hope I don't end up alone like that. Some pathetic old… — Augusten Burroughs Old man Copy Share Image
The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths. — Augusten Burroughs Found Copy Share Image
I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to… — Augusten Burroughs Care Copy Share Image
I don't think writers - in general - ever achieve the fame of movie stars. For the simple reason that only a… — Augusten Burroughs Achieve 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 Abusers Copy Share Image
“Because the minister's wife refused to leave the minister, and because my mother required a worshipful companion, she was forced to break… — Augusten Burroughs Marriage 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 Excited Copy Share Image
“Lately, I am receiving numerous calls each night from telemarketers. They're calling with the frequent urgency of dumped boyfriends. At this point,… — Augusten Burroughs Gay guy 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 Bin laden Copy Share Image
The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They… — Augusten Burroughs Action Copy Share Image
You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until… — Augusten Burroughs Dream Copy Share Image
The most important thing for a writer to do is to write. It really doesn't matter what you write as long as… — Augusten Burroughs Able Copy Share Image
I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to… — Augusten Burroughs Desperate Copy Share Image
No matter what I've written, someone somewhere has come up to me and said, "Me too." The truth can be offensive, but… — Augusten Burroughs Books 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 Best buddies Copy Share Image
Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when. — Augusten Burroughs Comfort Copy Share Image
Women smirk at baldness. How adorable would they find it if they began to lose their breasts in their late twenties? If… — Augusten Burroughs Add Copy Share Image
“At that moment it would have been easier for me to spontaneously grasp quantum string theory” — Augusten Burroughs Physics Copy Share Image
