People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent caffeine.

Don't sit back and be a bystander of your own life

Dating is like pushing your tray along in a cafeteria. Nothing looks good, but you know you have to pick something by the time you reach the cashier.

When a girl says, 'I can't believe I'm doing this!' just know that she had it planned from the minute she shaved

People can be taught to hate. And people can be taught to spell. But apparently, it's one or the other.

If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.

Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.

All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.

If you have a good date, it's nice to text them afterward to say "thanks." But if they were totally lame, it's fun to text "unsubscribe."

You need a little bit of the crazy to keep things fun.

People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all.

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

We need to maintain an awareness of our awareness, of what we are paying attention to, in order to discriminate between higher and lower forms of love.

Even having to water flowers is too much constraint.

The key to success is often the ability to adapt

I need to shop because generally, I really do style myself. It's easier to wear clothes that are true to who you are. But if it's a headache, I'll ask for help.

The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

A different drumbeat or some vocal overdub could completely transform the song.

I think that our American people will welcome a Russian military force for peace-keeping purposes.

To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.