It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.

But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.

I'm Cinderella. No, I'm better than Cinderella, because she only got the prince, didn't she? I'm Cinderella with fab teeth and a shit-hot job.

It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be...Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.I'm old.

When you have learned to love and control yourself, then you become the master of yourself.

I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?

However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.

I'm a complete democrat in terms of who buys my books.

You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.