I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with "drink coffee" and ended with "take a nap.

Like other women who sought equality, the amount of trouble I cause is inversely proportional to my physical size.

Be the slaughterhouse for sacred cows.

What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not so special. That’s how the human brain works.

I was crying because I had broken my best friend's heart.

Students may not remember what you try to teach them, but they will never forget who you are and what feelings you created in their mind.

If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him.

Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.

The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.

When I'm not working, I like to be comfortable. I do like to dress smart, but comfort is important.

Touring has been a new part of my life in a lot of ways. We've just been touring massively since the record came out and before. Learning how to write while all that is going on is a new thing.