Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons.

I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion and ask, "Where'd she go?" and I have to say, "I'm down here.

I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.

I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.

I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.

I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Spiritual grace adds to a life and it is crucial ingredient in any person’s quest to attain self-realization.

Until we learn to love everyone in this universe, how can there be peace?

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

Pressure point! Pressure point!

That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thing to do.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things to think about.

I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.