The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like 'are you a unicorn?'

I’m not playing the race card. I’m playing the rice card.

The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

I realized during some of the darkest moments of my life, that the most beautiful and precious happiness in the world is the Joy of Giving.

We have to actually choose a name, " Kane murmured above her head. "We can't keep calling him 'baby.' When he's fifteen he might resent it.

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world. Even though she knew it was a wicked thing to do.

Yet weren't all human beings simply human beings no matter what name you applied to them[?]

If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care about yourself because you're like, "This is so ridiculous."

I'm not mad. I'm a writer.

Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

That's the way I've been educated: I always think about what I missed and the things that you did, you did them, so you don't have to think about them any more.