...it is precisely because the world appears to us to be multiple, ambiguous, and paradoxical, that we must strive to speak and write clearly.

God chose to save you for a purpose

I'm still in love with the parts I believed to be true. All the lies that began and ended with 'I love you'.

I hate feeling hate but feeling nothing feels worse.

It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that.

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.

No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

Since I'm constantly in the sun, I use sunscreen daily.

I think you see more of like, the party side of me, which I call Snooki, it's kind of my alter ego.