If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

... but in the winter they were ensconced in a white powder of sparkling snow.

I have decided. I want to be about the cause of Jesus. I want to follow Christ, not the crowd.

Often, men want money to get women, or to use women to get money, or both at the same time.

I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.

Tosses her head and flips her hair, she got a whole bunch of nothing in there.

Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint.

I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?

Never make forecasts, especially about future.

A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan. Splendid.