No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.

It’s not my fault if I was born clever. Show me a book, a map, a language, a libretto - I won’t just learn it, I’ll use it.

The best of people find strength in misery.

There is no one way, no one way that always goes up. There are always ups and downs.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

He who fails to plan is planning to fail.

I deliberately go the wrong way so I can predict the outcome with confidence.

I was officially a hypocrite. I wanted to blend in and disappear yet be noticed doing it.

Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren’t even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they’re doing it.

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer.

I will love you if you don’t marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else … and I will love you if you have a child, and I will love you if you have two children, or three children, or even more, although I personally think three is plenty, and I will love you if you never marry at all, and never have children, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all, and I must say that on late, cold nights I prefer this scenario out of all the scenarios I have mentioned.

There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that has happened, but a crying for all of the terrible things that have happened, not just to you but to everyone you know and to everyone you don’t know and even the people you don’t want to know, a crying that cannot be diluted by a brave deed or a kind word, but only by someone holding you as your shoulders shake and your tears run down your face.

Blinded following the Blindfolded.

Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.