Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression.When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility.When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault.When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.

Children become frustrated and resentful when they view their parents as not being interested “in how they feel and in their point of view.

An act of mastery is mastery itself.

Not just when its easy. All the time.

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

The only and dearest relationship is the mind's relationship with itself.

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

My dog didn't like me very much. My first dog, Dmitri, was a poodle. I used to think Dmitri was something I could play with and ride. I tried to ride a poodle. And then he bit me.

Chloe?" "Yeah?" "I'd be worth the inhaler," he said, then forced himself to walk away.

I rode, and I rode, and I rode. I rode like I had never ridden, punishing my body up and down every hill I could find. I rode when no one else would ride.

There are so many of us, so many girls. The world wants us for our wombs or our bodies, or it doesn't want us at all.

A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.