“You weren't heavy at all...the only weight you carry is on your shoulders. I wish I could carry it for you.” — Augusten Burroughs Weight Copy Share Image
“Didn’t every new thing you did become a part of you, one of your bricks?” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Truthfulness itself is almost medication, even when it’s served without advice or insight. — Augusten Burroughs Advice 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
Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting. — Augusten Burroughs Crisis Copy Share Image
“His eyes are so clear and blue that nothing but clichés enter my mind.” — Augusten Burroughs Alcoholism 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
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 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
Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and… — Augusten Burroughs Being nice Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a… — Augusten Burroughs Bird Copy Share Image
My thoughts seem thick, ketchup stuck in a bottle. Like trying to feel someone's face while wearing goosedown mittens. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes. — Augusten Burroughs Childhood Copy Share Image
When I first thought of being a writer I had visions of stacks of books in stores with my name on them,… — Augusten Burroughs Book Copy Share Image
Self-pity is the bestiality of emotions: it absolutely disgusts people. When you're feeling pity for yourself, and somebody says to you 'You… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could… — Augusten Burroughs Addiction Copy Share Image
The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
It was like living in a new house. I saw the undersides of tables, walked through the tangle of chair legs. It… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books,… — Augusten Burroughs Book Copy Share Image
I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how… — Augusten Burroughs Cities Copy Share Image
Tracy, the leader of the CDH group, looks at me with eyes that seem to belong to someone three times her age.… — Augusten Burroughs Age Copy Share Image
“As I sat in the hot, salty water, I thought, 'No wonder Mr. Bubble always gave me a urinary tract infection and… — Augusten Burroughs Common people Copy Share Image
“We never sampled our drugs because we were afraid of them, but to admit it aloud would have broken the spell.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
My subconscious does the writing; I don't have control over that. — 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 Humor 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 Copy Share Image
“Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.” — Augusten Burroughs Community 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
And of course, the answer came to me in the same way Jesus comes to those who drink in trailers: as an… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“He was furious that the music house wanted forty grand. He wanted us to "Jew them down” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“We're all going to die eventually so why not have some fun.” — Augusten Burroughs Death Copy Share Image
“You know, American alcoholics are pretty fucking hard to insult.” — Augusten Burroughs Alcoholics 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 Copy Share Image
“I wish I had a tray table in my bedroom and I wish I smoked, just so I could extinguish my smoking… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other. — Augusten Burroughs Applause Copy Share Image
your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone. — Augusten Burroughs Community Copy Share Image
![“The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and…” quote by Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3b/augusten-burroughs-603_able_the-thing-for-someone-just-starting-off_2135014.jpg)
