I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Fear is Real not superficial...if ignored will conquer you...if fought...it will be conquered.-Fear of drowning can only be overcome only by learning to swim.

I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world but I succeeded because I keep going and going and going.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform.

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

[Bernie] Sanders is fighting against a system. He sounds good. The system is rotten to the core.

I've always been into monsters.

I do not give up, I never give up, for there is nothing in this entire world that is irrevocably unchangeable.