When I am old, I shall wear purple.

The craziest, most selfish act is to commit suicide. When you kill yourself, you kill others.

I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.

I can't stand purple. It doesn't suit me.

I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people.

I hate the stress of leaving. Even though I have everything I need, I always feel like I'm forgetting something.

Some of my best friends are Jewish contributors to the Democratic Party.

Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying, ‘Okay, I’m in the tampon aisle, but I don’t see it.'

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

love means breaking all the rules

There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.

My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts.

When you love yourself, you'll feel sorry for those that hate you instead of hating them back.