Augusten Burroughs Way Quotations

I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.

No matter what I've written, someone somewhere has come up to me and said, "Me too." The truth can be offensive, but it's always nourishing, in a way. You recognize it. You can feel it. And even if [readers] think, "My god, I would never get in those situations," within those ridiculous circumstances that I have created for myself, they know the way I respond is probably what they would do too.

And of course, the answer came to me in the same way Jesus comes to those who drink in trailers: as an epiphany.

My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines.

Writing has enriched my life in ways I never imaged.

In some ways, blogging is like drinking - it gives a person permission to be a total asshole.