Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.

Change the world by being yourself.

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.

The greatest sacrifice is the sacrifice of time.

I do believe that billionaires and multi-millionaires should be paying more in taxes.

Speaking of Satan, I was watching Rush Limbaugh the other day.

There is value in being free and spontaneous but the greatest power comes from seeing and using what results from that freedom.

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.

I'm a very kind of personable person and I love people.

I think it's important to look at the world as a bigger place than just the bubble that we live in. It's so easy to get caught up in things of a trivial nature.

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.

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