The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Life is short and you gotta enjoy it to the fullest while it lasts.

Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.

An awareness of mortality is a heavy price to pay for sentience

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

Images of the world are Renormalization Group fixed points.

Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.

I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy.

How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.

There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.