And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

We all have the innate capacity to feel free.

Religion suits everyone’s needs, believers, agnostics, atheists and god, just in case it exists

His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.

No greater burden can be born by an individual than to know none who cares or understands.

Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.

If I could have any job in the world, I'd start out by writing a blog on Wired.com.

Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.

Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.