"I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable."

“I think that if you look at all of the books that have ever been written about people working in the White House, they're sort of the opposite of my book. And I think that so many people want to write a book that sort of memorializes their place in history. And I wanted to write something for all of the women who are like me. I grew up in upstate New York, I graduated high school with 70 other people and didn't ever know that anything like this would have really been an option for me. So I wanted other young women — and men — to know that just being you is plenty.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

“Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.”

“Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.”

“I wouldn't necessarily say I'm arrogant. I'm just confident.”

Source : "The Fastest Mouth in the West" by Jonathan Abrams, grantland.com. April 8, 2015.

“What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!”

Source : Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

“I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“If the challenge seems a bit too overwhelming, that's the one you want. Take it on & let it pull you up.”

“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”

Source : Slavoj Žižek (2002). “Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates”, p.2, Verso