"History is the self-consciousness of humanity."

“I'd love to play Neil Kinnock. Because of my ginger hair, I thought that was a possibility. He's a hero and a villain in most people's eyes, but I'd like to do that, I think I'd be right for it.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk

“It's easy to set up binaries of who's good and who's bad, who is right and who is wrong. But I really don't think that way. I believe that people can change and grow.”

Source : "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

“The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have a ton of researchers and they don't get credited in the book.”

“We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.”

“We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.”

“I have a belief that if I wear my placenta in a necklace, there's a possibility of me gaining second sight - like being psychic. I would be wearing it whether or not I was in the public eye.”

Source : Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

“There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity.”

“Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.”

Source : Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.27, Macmillan