Vodka is kind of a hobby.

People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.

If the guy's a cutie, you've gotta tap that booty.

I'm a teenager trapped in an old body.

I may be a senior, but so what? I'm still hot.

Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment

Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.

Get at least 8 hours of beauty sleep. 9 if you're ugly.

We didn’t have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldn’t waste an afternoon on it

I don't know how people get so anti-something. Just mind your own business, take care of your own affairs, and don't worry about other people so much.

as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking.So it was when love slipped inside us.

Confident in spirit, courageous in soul.

You think winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.

Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city with a history of racial segregation.

Give yourself permission to do what you've always wanted.

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

If you are under control you're going too slow.

And when I say equality, I mean equality for everybody. Who are you telling who they can marry and who they can’t? What is this? This is 2014.

What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it into silk, or stories.