571 Quotes by Augusten Burroughs

When your psychiatrist forgets to look at the clock and is hanging on your every word, that’s when you know, out of all his patients, you are the sickest. He.

I can’t tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it’s something I never felt a part of. I’ve always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

I could write another collection of personal essays from what has happened to me in the last year alone. I don’t seek out my material – it finds me. I am magnetic, somehow.

To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I’d never seen anything like them. I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to be one of them or simply live among them taking notes and photographs.

Just as I had long suspected, a person didn’t really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.

We did not pass one other Mercury Merkur XR4Ti the entire way.

All children should be loved, protected, nurtured – emotionally and intellectually – respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated.

She was a rare psychotic-confessional-poet strain of salmonella.

When you feel spontaneously excited by something – a new career you never thought about, a haircut you see in a magazine and want – shame is the voice that brings you “back down to earth.