Just send the emails and talk to people. Spend all your money on nail polish and opera tickets.

Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.

I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.

I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store.

Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.

American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.

Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it."

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

Go to a place and just send out emails. That's my entire life. I go to countries and I ask, "Who would I know who lives here?" Not even do I know, but who exists and is on the planet.

There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels.

Two silent time zones had now merged to form the standard time of one man's fate

Shadows are in reality when the sun is shining the most conspicuous thing in a landscape next to the highest lights.

I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

Some people think they can; some think they can't. They are probably both right.

I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken.

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession.

It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.