This wasn't how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.

That's the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what's going on.

Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpectedly, something can go right.

You may wonder how I managed to make these friends. Well, I will tell you. Making friends is actually not that hard when you drop every single one of your standards.

People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be.

I believe that a person's taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know.

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.

Some people were nice to you simply because they liked you.

People have to create some sort of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty lives.

Don't you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?

But us women, well, we like our egos stroked every once in a while and a boy mourning over us is a huge boost

Life is real, not ideal.

The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets To rise, ascend, and culminate above Eternity's horizon evermore.

Watch out for people who feel weak. They may want to feel strong one day and you might not survive that moment.

I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.

Perhaps one day I will be fortunate enough to be upset over how I misunderstood I am. A girl can dream.

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

So I take a little sleeping pill, pop it and realize nothing's happening - but something else was happening.

I was trained as a straight dramatist.

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.