It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

Now, four years out of high school, I'm in an environment where people appreciate personality over appearance, and that makes me happy.

White writers can be blunt about race and get all activist because their anger isn’t threatening

I have found men more kind than I expected and less just.

I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.

Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.

I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.

Fools do not understand men of intelligence.

I had one or two steady girlfriends in high school, but then in college, it was three, four... I went crazy. At one point I had three separate girlfriends, running around mad.