How can I ask anyone to love me when all I do is beg to be left alone?

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath.

True: fear is the beginning of wisdom, but love perfects it!

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.

On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.

American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.

I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.

I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.

The surfing - the waves in Indonesia are amazing.

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.