People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be.

That's the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what's going on.

Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpectedly, something can go right.

You may wonder how I managed to make these friends. Well, I will tell you. Making friends is actually not that hard when you drop every single one of your standards.

I believe that a person's taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know.

This wasn't how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.

Some people were nice to you simply because they liked you.

People have to create some sort of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty lives.

Don't you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?

The task for parents and teachers is not to teach, it is how to inspire the people of youth to find their desire to learn.

But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information.

Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it.

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

The serialization through the Internet or through digital portals, means of ways of communicating, and I think that's great.

I was a super shy, shy kid, so that was kind of my way of expressing myself - to mimic what I saw on TV. I was a bit of a weird kid, but luckily my parents encouraged it.

What we're talking about is creating new forms of life on the basis of new values.

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.

Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.

When I was a girl I had this strong feeling that I didn't belong anywhere,... It was in my head, what I thought and dreamt, what I believed..., that's where I belonged, that was my country.