“The goal of life is to take everything that made you weird as a kid and get people to pay you money for it when you're older.”

“The more you know, the more you realise how much you don’t know — the less you know, the more you think you know.”

“But if you can’t love your-self, you can never love others. And if you never overcome your lack of self- love, you will carry that problem into all your relationships. Plagued by rejection, you will experience conflict with others, you will struggle to set meaningful goals, and you will feel a vague uncertainty about what truly matters.”

“Make up is generally there to make you look better, not make you look like you're wearing make up.”

“I am, apparently, of that rare breed that likes to write. The demands of a chapter pull me from bed in the morning, and regardless of how well I think I know the day's road ahead, there are always surprises. But the pleasures that come from writing about the American past, of discovering what I hope no one has seen before, are of course balanced by rough, often tedious stretches. Writing does not come easily for me; I work slowly, much like a sculptor with a chisel, only words rather than stone or wood are my medium. But when at the end of the day I have a page or two that seem right, I pull away from the desk certain that all is right in the world, regardless of what the evening news might tell me later.”

“Maybe that means "letting them get away with it" -- but maybe it also means letting *you* get away *from* it.”

“Watch out, life is watching you!!”