I was wearing women's jeans way before it was cool for guys to wear them. I have a weird torso - it's incredibly short, and only girl-pants fit me properly.

Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of greatness.

I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional

If you're lucky enough to find a weird - never let them go.

At my sexiest, I look like an androgenous Muppet.

I live in my own bubble. I'm in Gublerland.

I once gave a girl a bloody fake ear in a Tiffany jewelry box with a letter that said, “will you Gogh to prom with me?

I'm usually pretty lame when it comes to physical activity, but I'm like a Jedi on the badminton court. It's as if my body was built specifically for it - tall and lanky, with wrists like mousetraps.

My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness.

I guess I'm just in the flow and riding the wave.

I'm obsessed with coffee. My doctor says if I don't cut back, I am going to permanently damage my esophagus. No joke.

Organizing one's life to respond to a threat one felt powerless about as a child can be a source of enormous inspiration.

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality

In America, we have lost millions of decent-paying jobs. That has got to end.

That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths.

It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

I have a nut allergy. When I was at school the other children used to make me play Russian roulette but force-feeding me a packet of Revels.

If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?