God made us walking animals - pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy.
You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?
It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things. Otherwise, I don't know, I felt very lonely with some of the issues that I had or history that I had. And when I shared about it, I found that others had it, too.
Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.
I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.
Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.
You're only as sick as your secrets. Either it comes out their way or my way. I talk about myself behind my back. And I'm funny about it.
We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
The newer education put stress on culture. . . Saturday mornings, the young were brushed and washed, forced into blue cheviot suits, and dragged to children's concerts to learn appreciation. They wriggled, squirmed, counted the light bulbs in the ceiling, dived under seats to gather ticket stubs, stampeded out at intermissions. The weakness of their bladders was astounding.
A big part of life is realizing what you're good at.
The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New York. I went to Clinique and bought the three-step acne programme and felt so grown-up.