For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.

I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion and ask, "Where'd she go?" and I have to say, "I'm down here.

I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.

I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.

I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.

I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

What is greater than painIs a greater brainMore powerful than anything.

You can't lose in sales if you remember that you're not selling

Rock and roll was something to fall back on. If I had my choice, I'd be Jerry Rice and I'd be playing until I was forty-five.

You can stroke people with words.

If a country has a fascist leader, this is a great horror for that country; but there is much greater horror: The existence of ignorant and unethical masses who support that primitive leader!

Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.

History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.

Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.