All of her mannerisms, even her way of sitting, are of a perfect femininity. Or: how to occupy the least possible amount of space in the world.

For life is too short to resign ourselves to reading poorly written books and sleeping with women we don't love.

Irony alone is damning.The flesh will be bland and you will believe you are forever reading the same book.

Never stop searching.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we’d meet there again.

One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

Talking to fans has really blown my mind. It's made me so happy to know my work has touched people.

The Alexander Technique transformed my life. it is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone.

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.