The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.

Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves.

A grudge is like a cesspool

...nobody ever takes from the desert anything but aridity and monsters...

We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

People are often surprised by the fact that I laugh a lot, that I look like Lena Dunham, and that I don't want to make relationship dramas for the rest of my career.

The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.

The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you.

Personal style is not something that is just in the air. It is something you have and that you apply to yourself.

Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans

People are hungry for stories of faith. People are hungry for hope.

We shall not cease from exploration