Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

I hate being told I can't do something because I'm a girl!

How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country?

No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama."-Inside Out and Back Again

My discontent has accumulated over the past months, searching for a leak in the dam I’ve constructed to separate my true feelings from the situation closing in around me.

Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark.

I don't want to be on the cover of Playboy or Vogue.

The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

The problem with leftism as a vice is that everyone else is stuck with the hangover.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

I like to roast things from the inside out. I like to know what's going on.

I'd like to prove to women my age that there can still be good years ahead of us.

Our beliefs can move us forward in life, or they can hold us back.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.