"Talk to yourself in two languages - what do I fear and what do I love - in order to balance the body and the soul."

“Be happy with who you are, and know that being you is the best thing you can do for yourself.”

Source : "Meet The Carrie Diaries Star Ellen Wong". Interview with Michelle Ruiz, www.cosmopolitan.com. December 3, 2012.

“Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.”

“Genius gives birth, talent delivers.”

“I prize the privilege of being alone.”

“I guess sometimes the greatest memories are made in the most unlikely of places, further proof that spontaneity is more rewarding than a meticulously planned life.”

“The ***** contains 8,000 nerve endings. It makes it easy to have sex. With yourself.”

“We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.”

“[M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life-the year of finishing it, editing it, and seeing it through its various page-proof passes-ranks among the most unnerving of my young life. It has not felt good, or freeing. It has felt nerve-shreddingly disquieting. Publication simply allows one that much more to worry about. This cannot be said to aspiring writers often or sternly enough. Whatever they carry within themselves they believe publication cures will not, I can all but guarantee, be cured. You just wind up with new diseases.”