Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

The best part about working is that you never know what you're going to learn when you start out.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

I never knew what I was doing until I was done.

I want to live in a world where 'normal' is an insult.

I love doing club shows. I love that tight sound.

I'm English. And I don't have tan skin or blond hair or green eyes.