The ways your desire could humiliate you.

She must have already forgiven him for leaving her behind. Girls were good at colouring in those disappointing blank spots. I thought of the night before, her exaggerated moans.

The man was bearing down on me. My hands were limp and wet. Please, I thought. Please. Who was I addressing? The man? God? Whoever handled these things.

Money is ego, and people won't give it up. Just want to protect themselves, hold onto it like a blanket. They don't realize it makes them slaves. It's sick.

How impotent my anger was, a surge with no place to land, and how familiar that was: my feelings strangled inside me, like little half-formed children, bitter and bristling.

I paid bills and bought groceries and got my eyes checked while the days crumbled away like debris from a cliff face. Life a continuous backing away from the edge.

I took on the shape of a girl.

Pamela was beautiful, it was true, and I felt that submerged attraction to her that everyone felt for the beautiful.

I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self.

The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.

Many people spend their life always worrying about whether they have enough to cover expenses. They experience unhappiness.

Did you find yourself?" "What?" said my sister. "Did you find yourself?" "She found me," I said.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

You know what they say, dress your best when you go to bed because you don't know who you'll see in your dreams.

I'm someone who's really susceptible to tears.

Being an athlete, you try to get protein.

The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.

The name ‘Girls Generation’ in itself contains dreams. And that dream of making the world a Girls Generation will never change.