What I didn't need was some hot-and-cold long-distance flake wasting my time. It hurt my feelings and made me feel like something was wrong with me.

If you believe in yourself and work hard, your dreams will come true

If you believe in yourself and work hard, your dreams will come

If you've got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it? Flaunt it. 'Cause what are we even doing here if we're not flaunting it?

I am the kind of person who, if my feelings are unrequited, can completely detach from someone emotionally if I simply put my mind to it.

I'm the kind of person who becomes silent when I get scared, because I hope Death will not notice me if I am very still and very quiet. It has worked well so far.

I lost my mind. I lunged at him and inhaled all of his fries standing up a foot away from the trash can. No food is as delicious as food you eat standing a foot away from a trash can. Ask any possum.

There is a certain type of greasy hair that you get only when you are writing with no breaks.

Just bear a passing resemblance to a fictional romantic trope I like and I will love you forever. We're all just trying to find the Mark Darcy of our workplace, aren't we?

I don’t really like organizations where people are “deemed” things.

An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.

She remembered something that am old boyfriend had said to her. One that she didn't want to let go of at the time. One person can't be happy enough for the both of us

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

ISIS is on its way to defeat but terrorism threat persists.

What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis?

I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.

You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long.

Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.