“Beware of any motto that glorifies the past. It’s code for restoring hierarchy. For example: “Make America great again.” 

“As with all inferior things, this part of the city was given an adjective while the rest stole the noun.” 

“I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.” 

“Surrealism is the triumph of form over content.” 

“It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit.” 

“Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.” 

“We are all trained to be female impersonators.” 

“We learn most where we know the least.” 

“I'm also now immune to politicians who say, "I've traveled the length and breadth of this great land, and I know..." I've traveled more than any of them, and I don't know.” 

“Only food and water are more important than music and privacy,” 

“We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.” 

“It’s said that the biggest determinant of our lives is whether we see the world as welcoming or hostile. Each becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

“no one ever got radicalized by being grateful” 

“Always ask the turtle.” 

“Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.” 

“Remember: "For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost, for want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost, for want of a horse, the battle was lost, for want of a battle, the war was lost." This parable should be the mantra of everyone who thinks her or his vote doesn't count.” 

“One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!” 

I wanted to be Michael Jackson as a kid.

“The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.”

“When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven’t got any.” 

“The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.” 

“All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.”

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”

“Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.”