"Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting." ― Augusten Burroughs Topic(s): Marriage More From Augusten Burroughs "When people meet me, many times they’re very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I’m not." "I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn’t have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams." "I’ve just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I’m now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father." More In Marriage "I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem."― Dixie Carter "Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends."― Samuel Pepys "I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I’m more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn’t in dire straits."― Elizabeth Gilbert