All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

Work like hell, tell everyone everything you know, close a deal with a handshake, and have fun.

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say

A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness.

When I find a short-seller, I want to tear his heart out and eat it before his eyes while he is still alive.

Think about it, there must be higher love Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above Without it, life is a wasted time Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.

Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.