If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?

Admittedly, I am not the one who looks fantastic in everything, but still I cannot help loving myself.

So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they are absolutely correct, but in only one respect-only if they happen to be talking about Judaism.

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.