Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

The past isn't useful until its place in the present is found.

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.

Some people spend their lives failing and never notice.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they had therapy.

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal move and find her ignorance exploding in her face.

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

The waters wear the stones.

I just wanted to be sure of you.

I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

I think fun is one of the best gifts we can give to each other. If everyone was having fun we'd be in good shape.

The number of lines in your forehead tells how many lives you've lived.

Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.

My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.

Everything you need is within reach, the key is whose going to reach

In music the present is extended.

Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket.