When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true.

We're all just memories of our future selves.

Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on. Rather, an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin.

If you pay attention to the world, it’s an amazing place. If you don’t, it’s whatever you think it is.

I wear the same pants, same shirt and same shoes every day. I learned it from the greats, like Einstein. It's a uniform essentially.

Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.

Just remember, everything you are is.

When in doubt, zoom out.

It's creating things that make enough money to create resources to generate new technologies to have those technologies to generate more resources so I can make more things happen.

Common knowledge, but important nonetheless

The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore.

Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse.

We are blind to each other's humanity.

I - a philosopher - live in the cage of flesh and blood.

If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts.

God looks with favor at pure, not full, hands.

I believe that for the most part, achieving success - whatever that is for you - is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult.

In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow

Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most interesting to me as a reporter.

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

I was just thinking how unfortunate it'd be to be a fat girl named Candy.