Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it

What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.

You can't win all the contests and then lose at one contest and say, 'Why am I not winning this contest as well?' It's random. So truthfully, again, do I wish it weren't me? Absolutely. I still can't make that logistic jump to thinking there's a reason why it shouldn't be me.

Almost any age is better than twenty-two.

New York is breaking my heart. I’ve often said that it’s like having a really interesting boyfriend suddenly becoming really, really into wine, and having to have endless conversations about it.

Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky.