I am not reinventing myself. I am going through the layers and revealing myself. I am on a journey, an adventure that's constantly changing shape.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

I have found the key to a happy life is to get lost in love.

I will not die, it's the world that will end." paraphrase of unknown philosopher

It’s like life. The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Saying someone is ugly doesn't make you any prettier.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.

Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.

I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.