As soon as I was out in the street, I realized I didn't want to be alone after all, I realized I didn't want to be anything at all.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.

Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.

...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.

I have great faith in a seed.

Its so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.

I didn't start cooking until I was thirty-two. Until then, I just ate. - Julia Child

Of course there are certain things that get to me, but I try and lead by example and show people that, especially with haters, that you should just ignore them.

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

Without my mentors there is no Misty.

And by the right thing, I mean that whatever step we take next, the first criteria we should consider is the people who have been loyal to us, thus far, which is primarily our audience.

We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.

I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.