“One very gratifying compliment I sometimes hear is that women want to be my best friend. This endlessly amuses my actual best friend, Jocelyn, because in her estimation Im 'a good friend, but not t...”

“If you believe in yourself and work hard, your dreams will come true”

“There was no whimsical sip of wine at Thanksgiving for us kids while we were still teenagers. This was the Clinton era, and my parents were already worried about the moral deterioration of the coun...”

“...you need the tiniest bit of bravery. People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you're succeeding. People do not get scared when you are failing. It calms them...”

“If you've got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it? Flaunt it. 'Cause what are we even doing here if we're not flaunting it?”

“I am the kind of person who, if my feelings are unrequited, can completely detach from someone emotionally if I simply put my mind to it.”

“People are so fucking dumb. Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society and culture they were brought up in. People have attention spans of five seconds and as much dep...”

“Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.”

“To be wild as the waves;enshrinedby the vastnessour cosmic immemorial.Unsettled as the forest.An indomitable flickeramidst worldviews,of jaded crownsand romantic ash.”