Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?

That's the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what's going on.

Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpectedly, something can go right.

You may wonder how I managed to make these friends. Well, I will tell you. Making friends is actually not that hard when you drop every single one of your standards.

People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be.

I believe that a person's taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know.

This wasn't how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.

Some people were nice to you simply because they liked you.

People have to create some sort of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty lives.

Don't you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?

Why do Twolegs do anything? If we knew that, our lives would be a lot easier.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.

To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.

I’m enchanted by your beauty, my lady. Welcome aboard. You make a most welcome addition to our acerbic company…a lovely-smelling one, too. (Vik)

Women artists are still treated differently from men.