"I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid."

“Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and however you say it and, for me, it represents complete freedom of speech.”

“What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.”

Source : Speech at the Oxford Union, 2 December 1920, in Beverley Nichols '25' (1926) ch. 7

“I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.”

“Un homme avec Dieu est toujours dans la majorite  . One man with God is always a majority.”

“What creates reality is not reality, but you.”

“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”

“Older boys often asked me to teach them “some bad words in your language”. At first I politely refused. My refusal merely increased their determination, so I solved the problem by teaching them phrases like 'man kharam' which means “I'm an idiot”. I told them that what I was teaching them was so nasty that they would have to promise never to repeat it to anyone. They would then spend all of recess running around yelling “I'm an idiot! I'm an idiot!”. I never told them the truth. I figured someday, somebody would”

Source : Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.34, Random House

“I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion.”