I don't tell clients what to do. I don't even really tell them what the future is.

Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.

I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.

I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store.

Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.

American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.

Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it."

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

Go to a place and just send out emails. That's my entire life. I go to countries and I ask, "Who would I know who lives here?" Not even do I know, but who exists and is on the planet.

There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels.

I’ve been as good as dead since the day I was born. I accepted that a very long time ago.

When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.

I believe I can adapt to anything.

I think there is a fascination with choral music in general.

As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance.

I like how you sing that song. You sound like you're really old.

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.

The last Martian report station on Earth was established in the Pyrenees.

Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.