It will feel boring when you're bingeing.

The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.

You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.

By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others.

I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.

I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the present narrative.

I'm happy to always be included in the list of women. I'd like to be in the sections about female leaders and male leaders. Why not?

I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.

There are a lot of men with feminine leadership styles and there are a lot of women with masculine leadership styles.

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.

Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.

I've been playing a lot of really strong, able woman, but I think it would be really fun to play a crazy drug addict, or something.

In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.

I believe in God. He is the secret of my success. He gives people talent.

Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life

I never had it in mind that I would start a company one day and it would really be successful. I have just been motivated by working on interesting technology

The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the writing as high as it needs to be to keep people's attention.