Nico Lang

This is an excerpt from my first novel, called “The Young People Who Traverse Dimensions While Wearing Sunglasses,” which was the original title of ‘The Matrix’ when it came out in France. It’s about moving to another country to escape your problems, which is (apparently) a bad idea.

1. NEVER USE COMIC SANS FOR ANYTHING EVER.

We love seeing men break bad, as we vicariously live through Don Draper’s chic infidelities. But with women, it’s not so cool. They’re just breaking bitch.

Did you know Gandhi never said, “Be the change you want to see in the world?”

Love sucks, but it sucks a lot less when you find the right person to be in love with. Actually, you might find that it doesn’t suck, not even a little bit, not even at all.

When you’ve gotten over the pain, staying in this third stage — the place where you don’t feel hungry, just empty and tired — becomes like a habit, the thing you use to feel death inside you. Some people smoke. You just don’t eat.

Our entertainment comes with costs, and those need to be considered.

No matter what you think of Miley Cyrus personally, it’s about time we all started respecting the right of women to make mistakes and get messy — because that’s what sexuality is.

The girl didn’t ask for us to all start wearing dresses, wave around fairy wands and call her “Princess Unicorn of the Magic Kingdom.” She merely asked to be called “Chelsea.” Not so hard.

Emily: As a child, your mother had an unusually large head. Lorelai: The best thing about it was that she would tell me — constantly. My first complete sentence was, “Big Head want dolly.”

“When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”

She shouldn’t just be the next president. Hillary Clinton should be the next Batman.