I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.

I miss the comfort in being sad.

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

Have you ever had a broken heart?

If you get old fashioned enough, you'll always be in style.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

I don't understand women at all. Like how a women can pour boiling hot wax onto their upper thigh, then rip the hair out by the root... and still be afraid of a spider.

In our own lives, we will try something new and, finding that it isn't easy for us, we conclude we don't have a talent for it.

Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible

Seriously, I have the best fans ever.

I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.

I want to be all used up when I die.

Men aren’t attracted to me by my mind. They’re attracted by what I don’t mind.

Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.

The real reality is always just around the corner.

Bill Clinton is a liar, a perverted kind of a guy anyway, and he is always stroking black folks rather than telling them the truth.