Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend.

Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole

The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.

The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.

There's a kind of pressure that your own life muscles onto you, to do something just like you would do, to behave just like yourself.

We still go where we want, even if we got to crawl for the right.' - Tom Joad (Jr.)

Her mother was by turns tender and pathetic and terrifying, broken in a way that no one, in that time or place, had any idea how to fix.

The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless ... beyond speech ... beyond concept.

You can't suppress Bodily Functions

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

You just keep going. Nothing that isn't beautiful is worth slowing down for.

My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

It's great to do theater and have the live response and know what that can bring to a performance. I like to juggle as many mediums as I can.