You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.
Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable.
In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.
There are writers who can show you the excellence of their brains and writers who show you the depths of their souls: I don't know any writer who does both at the same time as brilliantly as Roxane Gay.
My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.
Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.
The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger and more lasting than the individual.
Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.
I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done.