The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'

我不是男人，我是女人。

You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.

The writer's duty is to tell the truth, even when it is inconvenient.

Contemporary art is the arena where the unfinished business of modernity is worked through.

To really be a nerd, she’d decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.