"I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives."
"Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
Andy Warhol on Famous"I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous."
Walt Disney on Famous"What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous."
Voltaire on Famous"We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free."
Jiddu Krishnamurti on Famous"Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable."
Ambrose Bierce on Famous"What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce."
"I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be."
"There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right."
"What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce."
"Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration."