Don't you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?

That's the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what's going on.

Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpectedly, something can go right.

You may wonder how I managed to make these friends. Well, I will tell you. Making friends is actually not that hard when you drop every single one of your standards.

People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be.

I believe that a person's taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know.

This wasn't how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.

Some people were nice to you simply because they liked you.

People have to create some sort of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty lives.

Never show your weakness before adversary.

Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark.

I challenge you to be dreamers I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.

I don't feel that I've faced discrimination. I've had every chance to succeed and more, and I think that's what all women should have.

The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.

You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

Probably." "Again with the probablys." "A world full of probablys," she said.

Most important, don't do anything you don't want.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.