As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.

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.

Nature is our spirit, breathing.

Who care's what other people think? If you are happy with yourself, you will get by just fine with them.

I don't want you to say anything. I want you to listen. You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.

The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.

Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?

My home has always been show business.