Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level.

Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way more than they are.

I'm not sure I'm okay with 2 guys gettin' married, but I don't wanna be a jerk about it.

And home pregnancy tests? They are so last century. Nowadays, I think there's an app that calls your iPhone to warn you that if you finish that third cosmo, you may wind up with a wombmate.

Every era in history has needed, and will need, reproductive health services.

You can't solve a problem until you address the problem.

By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?

We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.

My curiosity is not a choice. It's always been part of me. I think of it as a vital organ.

I'm Catholic. My mother and I were unpacking and she found my diaphragm. I had to tell her it was a bathing cap for my cat.

Commit a little bit more to the world outside of your own life. Get people talking.

Naming enables the noble-minded to speak, and speech enables the noble-minded to act. Therefore, the noble-minded are anything but careless in speech.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

If [Donald ] Trump wins, they [ white supremacists] could be running the country.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

I made a conscious decision to earn enough to be able to choose my husband rather than not have a career and marry someone who would have to earn enough for us both to live on.

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.