Science has already proven the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and Chinese food, but I can still ruin soft drinks for everyone!.

It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.

Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.

A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.

Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.

Do you know what it's like to be the kind of girl that boys never talk to and then suddenly, a boy talks to you?

At the mercy of grace

Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay.

I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

The opportunity to carry water every night to James Earl Jones on stage is a dream come true.

I know what it’s like to miss someone. To feel like you’re just…wandering around, lost.

I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.

Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.

We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.