Quotes from Carol Plum-Ucci

People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.

I only wish to be gone. Therefore, I AM.

Sometimes it has to feel worse before it feels better.

People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive.

Some doctors say a person who has only had same-sex attractions is, like, a zero. A person who has only had opposite-sex attractions is, like, a ten. He says most people fall between one and nine.

People make their own choices, and sometimes those choices suck.

Life is a journey, and I may not have always lived up to my ability, but I have always lived purposefully, and I guess readers get caught up with me, raising the questions, looking for the answers, looking to be a little more understanding, a little less judgmental, a little more merciful. I hope so.

You're making it sound like it's more dangerous to have a slightly weird family, than a totally weird family.

There is justice in an insanely cruel world.

People used to say I was weird,» he said. «I used to care. But I don't anymore. People shouldn't care, people shouldn't use words like weird once you hit junior year. Everyone's weird. That's the way I look at it.»

It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself.

Everyone who doesn't want to believe in supernormal powers says the people who experience them are psycho. What the hell kind of a world is this if all magic moments are psychotic?

Of all those books you've read? There's got to be something, somewhere in them, to help us laugh at a situation like this.

It was as if the story had been added to, so as not to disgust people too much.

Problem with the big philosophers is they cared about ideas more than people. Hegel would probably have stepped over a guy trying to slit his wrists outside a bar — to get to all the people he could sit and bullshit with inside. Did you know half of philosophy was first put into words by people shot in the ass?

I think desire is the most powerful force in the universe.

perhaps they will remember Chris Creed and they will find their tolerance, their compassion.

Why is it that everyone loves to see the rich person get flushed down the toilet? Why is it people will spend four dollars to buy a magazine just so they can read about some Hollywood star's divorce? Or arrest? Or bad luck? I have no idea what Hollywood crimes have actually been told truthfully, but at least I have the brains to say I don't know.

At times there's a razor-thin line between truth and insanity.

The university doesn't THINK; the university KNOWS. If the university says it's Thursday, then it's Thursday.

You can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to.

Life is all we have, and if we can't look at it honestly, are we really living?

You can't find your life, or your peace, in the middle of a bezillion eyes staring at you.

People's lives can look so good on the outside and be so much dark shadow on the inside.