If you do it properly, life is art, really.

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.

You wanted to become a doctor to help people and feel better at the end of your job, I think, watching them, as the nurse takes my hand. But I don't think you do feel better at the end of the day. You look like humans have constantly disappointed you.

Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.

I wish I could give up smoking, but it does taste so delicious.

The motto I have penned on my knuckles is that this is the best world we have--because it's the only world we have. It's the simplest math ever. However many terrible, rankling, peeve-inducing things may occur, there are always libraries. And rain-falling-on-sea. And the moon. And love. There is always something to look back on, with satisfaction, or forward to, with joy. There is always a moment where you boggle at the world--at yourself--at the whole, unlikely, precarious business of being alive--and then start laughing

Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.