“All actors should experience public failure.”

“I'm still a student of fashion, but I like hooking up with the people that really know how to make cool clothes.”

“I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.”

“I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.”

“I was a handful growing up.”

“So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her ...”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

“We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For o...”

“The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you're smarter than they are. You're not even old enough to drive and you already know that n...”

“I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me ...”

“Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead.”

“Think about what you sell in terms of how it eases or prevents pain for your client.”

“The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and...”