There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.

Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.

Don’t discount that part of who he was just because you didn’t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.

You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.

Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard.

We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

Jenni Fagan is the real thing, and The Panopticon is a real treat: maturely alive to the pains of maturing, and cleverly amused as well as appalled by what it finds in the world.

I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.

When you lose an election, you don't blink, you don't turn away. You look it right in the eye and say, why did we lose?

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment.

The thing that men and women need to do is stick together Progressions can't be made if we're separate forever

To be sure your life will be full and abundant, you must plan your life.