A bath tub, apparently, was the first thing I wanted to be.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

The book is man's best invention so far.

The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?

If there are any tears shed in heaven, they will be over the fact that we prayed so little.

The tragic irony in all of this is that when we focus so strongly on our need to get better, we actually get worse.

Deliver more than you promise.

What do they call that hat Jewish guys always wear? A Yankees cap.

The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

There need to be some absolutes in life.

If you're going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.

The green shoots of economic spring are appearing once again.