Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

Simply blessed.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful

Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret. I just told my mother I want a bra. Please help me grow God. You know where.

You have to tell a story before you can sell a story.

Put your hair up, Min. The secret ingredient is not your hair.

I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading.

The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.