You don't really think about [career] much, because in a way it seems like another time and a different person.

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

You are not alone if you are lonely, When you feel afraid, you're not the only.

Angry people attract angry people and live in an angry world and this validates their opinion that the world is angry.

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.

You can achieve a shallow local maximum with A/B testing - but you'll never win hearts and minds.

All gods are better than their reputation.

I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.

I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it our ourselves.

I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother and what she would think about what I just did. I often adjust my approach.