Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.

Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

Love is a powerful painkiller.

Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.

The market is the only critic that matters.

The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.

Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

The best critic needn't be right, just interesting.

Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.

There is a sense in which I am pretty sure this makes no sense. I don't know where this is going. I don't know how it ends.

I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now.

I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

We need to invest in all energy sources, including coal and shale.

I just don't know how to stitch words in a predictable way sometimes. It's a weird instinct I've developed.

Take notes. Everything is copy.

I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.

Nought may endure but Mutability.

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.