If you don't want someone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself. (Vanishing Acts, pg. 339)

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.

~Reading a book is like looking through a window!

The woman in you is the worry in me.

Damn where my roof just go? Top slipped off like Janet at the Super Bowl.

Grammar is the analysis of language.

This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

If I was racing in 2015, no, I wouldn't do it again because I don't think you have to. If you take me back to 1995, when doping was completely pervasive, I would probably do it again.

I'm so much more famous than I am financially successful.

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.