Being a woman, in this world, ultimately makes you crazy.

Bad stuff happens, people are mean, there are no steps you can take that ensure the world leaves you alone. All you can do is try not to be one of those people who contributes to the bad.

Everyone's always scared for someone else's generation

Everyone's on the cliff edge of normal. Everyone finds life an utter nightmare sometimes, and there's no 'normal' way of dealing with it... There is no normal, Evelyn.

All knowledge is worth having.

Assess your days and reconcile the differences. Repeat steps to success and dispose bad habits.

You could've at least let me know you weren't dead by the way. I was actually kind of sad about that." "That's a pretty incredible sentiment, coming from you.

Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.

I forced a smile. It was the one I'd been practicing all morning. It felt tight at the edges and brittle everywhere in between.

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.

Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do.

The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.