I believe that a person's taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know.

That's the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what's going on.

Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpectedly, something can go right.

You may wonder how I managed to make these friends. Well, I will tell you. Making friends is actually not that hard when you drop every single one of your standards.

People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be.

This wasn't how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.

Some people were nice to you simply because they liked you.

People have to create some sort of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty lives.

Don't you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?

This is my one last call and lullaby for this eternity. All of my medicine.

Great things only come with great effort.

I was always confident and comfortable. But motherhood is what really made me feel beautiful.

I find China such a fascinating and interesting country. Each time I come back something has changed and it's moved on in leaps and bounds.

He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.

I drive a car till it turns to dust, then I sweep up the dust and ride on the dust.

The fossil-fuel-based development model has not benefitted all people and those who have benefitted least are now suffering great harm in the face of climate change.

Academics are mostly professionals, involved in their work and other concerns of their own, with no particular interest in the workings of the ideological system.

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.