We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

Nothing left to do but smile.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.

Despite her words about letting go, melancholy washed over her. Because words are easy and often thrown around with trite intentions.

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

This is my world. You step into my world, you will step out a loser - I guarantee it.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

Like bookends, we have learned to support each other when the stuff in the middle pushes us apart.

All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

All the world's roads lead to the heart of the Warrior.

But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.