Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels – people you don’t want to resemble when you grow up

But I want you to know that you’re a beautiful girl, far more beautiful than I ever was at your age, and that starving yourself to compete with all of those skinny celebrities who spend...

There is a huge trapdoor waiting to open under anyone who is critical of so-called ‘popular culture’ or (to redefine this subject) anyone who is uneasy about the systematic, massified cretinization of the major media....

There are two ways to become popular; either by setting the cat amongst the pigeons or by getting the cat out of the midst of the pigeons. The latter is better!

Our culture has become so obsessed with celebrity that it’s easy to confuse fame with success. They are not the same thing.

We shall always treasure the wonderful times shared with amazing people.

What’s the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?