Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.

By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.

Lexicographers are language reporters.

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.

I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feeling of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.

Language is a nice way to remember things.

All language is a popularity contest.

You can weaponize nice... Being nice can make you be a little underestimated.

if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi

It has thick skin, and all the most important thinkers have become part of it.

I'm too old to figure out the rights and wrongs of everything.

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope not of despair.

Quit the world, and the world forgets you.

There's no value to working hard on being really popular.

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.

What is meant to be, will always find its way. And when your down and feeling alone, just wanna run away, trust yourself and don't give up. You know you better than anyone else.

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway