You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone.
A kiss with the right person simply can't be compared to the drudgery of sleeping with the wrong one over and over.
Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.
Love is a state of the heart, but also, an activity. And quite an awesome one.
Sometimes you have to be a bad person to save yourself, and it takes a little chunk out of your soul, but you do it anyway.
Fashion magazine disease articles. My personal Kryptonite.
Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.
People are only what they think of themselves.
Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her way and perhaps even self-doubt because there aren't that many who've gone before you. And I think that the most powerful tool we can have is to be clear about our intent. To know what it is we want to do rather than going into institutions thinking that the institution is going to frame for us.
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Neil Armstrong, that spaceman, he went to the moon but he ain't been back. It can't have been that good.