I like to be depressing. I feel it's my duty to make everyone a little less happy. You know that line in the Declaration of Independence, "the pursuit of happiness"? I've come to think that it has no meaning at all. You cannot pursue happiness. And to think that this bad little sentence has determined our lives.

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

It's not that I'm a very good person. It's that I think I should at least look at the ways in which I am not a good person, the ways in which I so readily become the person who would not notice that the wonderful clothing I'm wearing someone is probably dying for.

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.

I am not aware of anything below my neck. I live completely in my head.

It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.