You know, when you need drugs and you don't have a lot of money, what you'll do is you'll hang out with people who will give you drugs. Right?

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

Ten minutes of meditation a day, keeps the psychiatrist away.

You've always said I should have an inquiring mind, " she said. "I have. But not an interrupting one.

When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.

I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.

We wanted the book [Paper Girls] to feel to evoke the '80s, but not necessarily feel that it was drawn then.

The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper.

From 16 to 26, no one really knows what they want to do for the rest of their life at that age. Latin's not f - ing one of them.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

Instagram was created because there was no single place dedicated to giving your mobile photos a place to live and to be seen.

I want you to walk out of here tonight not loving me more, but loving yourselves more.