Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.

In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.