You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence, and each one is either being useful or beautiful, but hopefully both.

We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.

I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.

The world is difficult and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.

When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.

I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.

It's always sunny above the clouds. Always. Every day on earth - every day I have ever had - was secretly sunny, after all.

When I hear women talking about how their wedding is going to be/was the best day of their life, I can’t help but think, You just haven’t taken enough MDMA in a field at 3 a.m., love.

I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.

Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.

Let no feeling of discouragement preyupon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

After I am dead I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

How can you be a vegetarian atheist and own a gun? Well, that's who I am.

I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

I guess there were fewer differences between me and social psychologists than between me and other people in general

When I was a little kid, I kind of liked the commercials more than a lot of the stuff on TV. My favorite ones were the Miller Lite ads with all the jocks in them. "Tastes great, less filling."

Larry Jones with Feed the Children and I are partnering in New York and going into Rikers Island.

Balance isn't either/or; it's 'and'.

Woe and death to all who resist my will!