Brie Porter

“Our body dries out with every passing year; newborns are about 75 percent water, not much different from an average potato.”
― Neil Shubin, The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People

“FELIX. I can’t stand it, Oscar. I hate me. Oh, boy, do I hate me.
OSCAR. You don’t hate you. You love you. You think no one has problems like you.
FELIX. Don’t give me that analyst jazz. I happen to know I hate my guts.
OSCAR. Come on, Felix; I’ve never seen anyone so in love.
FELIX. (Hurt) I thought you were my friend.
OSCAR. That’s why I can talk to you like this. Because I love you almost as much as you do.”
― Neil Simon, The Odd Couple - A Comedy in Three Acts

“A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up. But you make it up in the name of the truth, and then you give your heart to expressing it clearly.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“My heart is heavy with the things I do not understand.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book