Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

I am Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds.

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

You show me a truly funny girl who doesn't have emotional issues, and I'll introduce you to my stable of unicorn thoroughbreds ridden by leprechaun jockeys.

Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.

The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them

You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That's what it's like listening to you speak.

I will never understand why people get so upset at things I don't even remember saying.

I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.

When you were born, you were given a one-way ticket. You can never come back and visit your past.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize in positive ways to help society.

Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.

As I view it, spending over two years in a cage is far worse than having your face pounded and dealing with a black eye for a week or two.

There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.

You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.

The challenge is about taking things that are infinitely complex and making them simpler and more understandable.

A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.

I'm like 6'2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.