How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about.""Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre.

One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow-A Collector's Dream.

Always live your life with your biography in mind, " Dad was fond of saying."Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

If a fly lands on your food, do not use a hammer to remove it.

One small boy was all it took to upset the universe

I'm having an unbelievable time on the road. I am taking the time to explore each new city in a way I never have before.

I had given up on being beautiful. But I thought I could kind of inspire boys to write songs about me. So I became a music journalist at the age of 16.

I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.