I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.

I'm not overweight. I flucuate between chubby and curvy.

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.

I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.

I, like most women, I dress for other women, I think. If I was going to dress for men, I think in general I would be just wearing, like, a fitted black T-shirt and tight jeans every day.

If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous of.

Running is a quick trigger for a good mood. The great thing about endorphins, you don't have to be in great shape to get them.

Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.

There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume.

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

I romanticized him until he was the perfect being. A soul so beautiful, but so immensely evil too.

We are all joined in a circle of stories.

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who?

It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?

Just because you’ve come to a dead end, it’s not time to give up. Find a different route and keep pressing forward.

The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned

In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created.

Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.