I don't really think of my blog as a real blog. It's a lame blog. It's more like my when-the-mood-strikes update, or… — Augusten Burroughs Blogs Copy Share Image
All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know. — Augusten Burroughs Money Copy Share Image
It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes. — Augusten Burroughs Cigarette Copy Share Image
You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind. — Augusten Burroughs Mind Copy Share Image
“My worth depended on where exactly the decimal was placed among the zeroes.” — Augusten Burroughs Money Copy Share Image
“No wonder I had found that woman so offensive. Sometimes things feel that bad. Sometimes you just feel like shit.” — Augusten Burroughs Offensive Copy Share Image
“And that was one thing I didn't want: NO CASUAL SEX. I thought it was disgusting, the idea of just screwing around… — Augusten Burroughs Casual Copy Share Image
Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face. — Augusten Burroughs Able Copy Share Image
I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have… — Augusten Burroughs Drink Copy Share Image
“I had always had the oddest feeling, consider it knowledge, that if I were ever to find myself inside the cockpit of… — Augusten Burroughs Cockpit 767 Copy Share Image
“Although my parents never attended church or mentioned Jesus except when they screamed at each other—and then they used his full name,… — Augusten Burroughs Catholic Copy Share Image
“Think of the actual physical elements that compose our bodies: we are 98 percent hydrogen and oxygen and carbon. That’s table sugar.… — Augusten Burroughs Elements Copy Share Image
“I slipped on a turtleneck, laughing when my head became stuck in the turtle part. If they weren't called turtlenecks, I wouldn't… — Augusten Burroughs Childhood Copy Share Image
“Six hours later, when I returned, I was greeted at the door- and this before it was even opened -by the overpowering… — Augusten Burroughs Next door Copy Share Image
I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of… — Augusten Burroughs Certain Copy Share Image
I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk… — Augusten Burroughs Alive Copy Share Image
Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction… — Augusten Burroughs Acceptance Copy Share Image
“If my mother was odd enough to crave a bubble bath at three in the morning, Dorothy was inventive enough to suggest… — Augusten Burroughs Broken glass Copy Share Image
My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact,… — Augusten Burroughs Academy Copy Share Image
“Give me down. And give me the Polaroids of the fifty geese that had to die in the process.” — Augusten Burroughs Geese 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… — Augusten Burroughs Junkie Copy Share Image
“George had been surprised by my ability to leave him. He had not seen that in me.” — Augusten Burroughs George Copy Share Image
...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting. — Augusten Burroughs Crisis Copy Share Image
“Didn’t every new thing you did become a part of you, one of your bricks?” — Augusten Burroughs Bricks Copy Share Image
“Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth” — Augusten Burroughs Health Copy Share Image
“He sees the shit that happens around me - or because of me - so now he is only 99.99 percent certain… — Augusten Burroughs Frog Copy Share Image
“It's neat how money smells nothing like anything in the world except money, just like cardboard.” — Augusten Burroughs Cardboard Copy Share Image
“Will I end up in Hell along with the Hamburger Helping Hand, Joe Camel and Wendy, the Snapple Lady?” — Augusten Burroughs Hell 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 I love him 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 Humor Copy Share Image
“His eyes are so clear and blue that nothing but clichés enter my mind.” — Augusten Burroughs Alcoholism Copy Share Image
I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day… — Augusten Burroughs America Copy Share Image
I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also… — Augusten Burroughs Compassion Copy Share Image
[Christmas] holidays are a heavy, heavy time. We make light of them with our red and green and our stockings and candy… — Augusten Burroughs About family Copy Share Image
I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren’t alone. Maybe God… — Augusten Burroughs Feels Copy Share Image
“He likes things that make sense, and this word explains everything he knows about me. It makes perfect sense. Unless you don't… — Augusten Burroughs Delusional Copy Share Image
“Turn off the light," she says as she walks away, creating a small woosh that smells sweet and chemical. It makes me… — Augusten Burroughs Leaving Copy Share Image
“As far as I'm concerned, baldness is the male breast cancer, only much worse because almost everyone gets it. True, it's not… — Augusten Burroughs Baldness Copy Share Image
As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just… — Augusten Burroughs Childhood 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 Gay men Copy Share Image