Badass is a juvenile aspiration.

I’m not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls.

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.

You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees.

I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.

My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.

My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then.

This is the crepe. This is the cider. This is how we live and eat.

I knew that I did not want to go to that juvenile diversion program because I had an intuitive sense that it would turn me irrevocably into the kind of character that I was now only rehearsing to be.

[I] like to be anchored by routine, not shackled by it.

We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full need of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away.

Pony Lords, jump for your lives—AAH!

It would be nice to report she lived happily ever after till the end of her days. But such cheap, cop-out one-liners belong to other uncomplicated fairy tales.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

We live in fear when we've forgotten how to act from a place of love. Remember that, and set intention to act from a place of no comparison, jealousy, or fear. Police yourself on this!

I hate to disappoint my haters, but I'm not the least bit interested in being a man. I'm perfectly satisfied with the female role.

If you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.