She was a professional. A professional who didn’t need five inches of makeup and f*ck-me cleavage to do her job.

Her mouth connected with his. Everything inside her collapsed and was constructed, simultaneously.

I’m using beauty to subvert the system.

What do you think Amy Poehler is doing right now?

You are a goddess. You are a catch. You are, like, the outcome of every self-help book ever written.

There’s no such thing as ugly.

Nature hath no goal, though she hath law.

Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

I never set out now to get a Grammy, or get an American Music Award, but it still is nice to be recognized.

And not go to things that sound good that really did not have the kind of impact that we would want. Who disagrees with keeping neighborhoods safe?

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.

I would like better colouration of my legs, like a little less of that English mottled purple thing that makes it necessary to wear tights all the time.

He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. In the mass we give Christ nothing; we only receive from Him.

I'm a work in progress, but if I know in my heart that I'm doing my best, that my heart's in the right place, that I have unconditional love, I feel okay.