Subtract out the impact and the fall is all you get. So here's two beers to remember why and three more to forget.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind.

A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My basic viewpoint is that without art we're alone.

I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.

Take off your armor; dare to be vulnerable, dare to unwrap yourself, and dare yourself to be yourself.

They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse.

We have a relational problem with those who are suffering or who are different from us. All of us are most comfortable around people who are like us culturally and economically.