Everyone wants to play. They're just afraid of looking stupid. But you know what's stupid? Not trying. So just...try.

We can be so much braver and bolder with a good friend by our side!

When I look back at high school, or college, or when I was getting married, it's the girlfriends I had then that give substance and joy to that point in my life.

Female friendships are important because they help define us in a particular time and place.

I wonder what it would feel like to laugh like that, with complete abandon.

If my hair gets any frizzier, I'll shave it to the scalp. Or light it on fire. Whichever is easier.

A seal the size of Canada attaches to her soul light.

You’re beautiful. If you believe it, they’ll believe it.

But let me tell ya, spend every day living only for yourself, every day indulging in little sins that aren’t that big of a deal, and one day I may be showing you the ropes in hell. Amen.

We girls are prewired to like things that make you suffer.

I wonder if Blue knows she’s repainting her room.I wonder if he’s asking if she wants a ride to the party tonight.I wonder if he knows what being strangled feels like.

But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.

As salvation is personal, so also is the territory every individual has to possess.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

Problems are God's resistance to create spiritual muscles.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.