How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Benefit is the only blindfold required to convince ourselves that poison is wine. Liberty's comfort level rises and falls with the sympathies of its children. Well, I for one will not collaborate.

Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.

Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.

The universe is not particularly concerned with you.

I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me.

Cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer. There's nothing fluffy about optimism.

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

My father thought a novel was a broken short story. There's something to that. Many of my favorite novels are novellas. The authors of brief things must reckon with the precision of language.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.