Your life is not a simulation

There is nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it.

It could have been so beautiful.The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person ever againand it could have been so beautiful, the way I actually did.

If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.

Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.

We are in the midst of a VoIP communications revolution.

No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'