TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.

Don't waste your time on jealousy.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.

Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

If you're jealous of someone else it simply means you have not come to a true acceptance and appreciation of yourself.

Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true.

You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.

The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

The expression on my face - who on earth would be interested in that? All that I have to say is to be found in my works. (On being photographed)

There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.