I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

I wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

I like definitive things.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

I want the world to see my body.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

I have to be seen to be believed.

Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

I didn’t like the way I looked in pictures – when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, ‚Eesh.‘

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.