This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take that away.

The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It’s a vicious cycle.

No one can be everything you want them to be.

I'd rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable.

It’s unbelievable how you can affect someone else so deeply and never know.

If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?

My thing is that I'm in love with love. Actually, I'm in love with the possibility of true love. Which could be considered a major problem.

Sometimes in the midst of all your boy drama, you just need a cupcake.

Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.

I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma.

But if your boyfriend, out of nowhere and with no advance warning whatsoever, dumps you for no apparent reason, is it really about you? Or is it all him?

Not to discover the love of God is to be lost in life

The shovel is the brother to the gun.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.

Ultimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight.

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.