The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.

It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

Everyone on the bus can laugh at me, and I'll be like, 'Screw you guys: I look good!'

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.

Never compete, create.

We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

It's not that I write songs that are easy to get but I don't think there's a lesson that I'm trying to teach in any of my songs. There's not a moral at the end of it.

The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real. -Suite Scarlett

Every comedian comes to a fork in the road where they have to decide if they're going to make jokes about other people or make jokes about themselves. I chose myself.