Quotes from Augusten Burroughs

Never work with children, puppies or bulimics.

You manufacture beauty with your mind

My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.

Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

I was desperate to discover what nothing felt like. It was the absence of something that attracted me. It was the start. Everything important originated with nothingness.

My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.

I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.