I've never really looked back.

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

Faith and doubt both are needed not as antagonists but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.

We have to really be intentional right now about holding the media accountable, and taking back the discourse and terms of discussion. It's been hijacked.

"The root of joy is gratefulness."

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

I learned that as long as I had anything in my heart or head I still felt necessary to hide, it would not work. I had to come to peace with everything.

Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

I'm not really interested in making someone endure a performance or stand there for too long. I like to think about the length.