Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

I am a rebel, and I relate to the rebel spirit in Chenault [from the Rhum Dairy].

The sadest part of love life is when you cannot live with and without the one you love

...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world.

...at times, the greatest courage of all is to live.

I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2.

Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.

The measurement in this race is not where you come from, it is "what do you fight for."

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

Stop selling. Start helping.