I am supposed to be where I go.

It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.

You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back

Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege

This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it.

I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued.

This is how it is now. This is my life.

Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then.

I wasn't that familiar with silent films. I didn't know, for example, how hugely popular silent films were in the 1920s, how people would go to the movies several times a week.

One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on.

Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a real destructive rage and immaturity.

What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like.

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

Forgive for your sake, if not for theirs. Those who can forgive live healthier, happier, and less stressful lives.

In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day-or to celebrate each special day.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Light black. From pole to pole.

To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.