When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.
I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.
Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.
If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.
I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.
Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.
I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.
Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.
My mom has always been a huge inspiration. She was a single mom raising two kids in New York. Now that is full-on all the time.
In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.
I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.