NaughtyElk

Tonight I gave Art Spiegelman the National Book Awards Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. And we're both being banned. Some of you may think this is a good thing because you don't like my books or you don't care for Maus. But I guarantee that there are books you love on the banned lists too. That's why libraries and librarians fight for their rights to have all the books on the shelves and for your rights to read them. And it's why I support them.

“Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.”

“Happiness is just a priest who reads us words of consolation while we walk up the steps to the hangman.”

“How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you’ll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter.”

“Am I lonely because no one cares, or am I lonely because I’m not strong enough to let anyone get close enough to care?”

“The best advice I’ve ever received: ‘no one else knows what they are doing either.”

“It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”

“I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.”

“Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”