Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.

My family life, my adoption - it could be related to the songs, but I think the songs are deeper than that. They're not just about this experience.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

I'm feeling better than expected.

I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

I don't think half my stuff would be funny if the audience didn't feel at least a little bit safe that it's not how I truly feel.

Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bullshit before.

The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.