Googling yourself is maybe one of the worst things you can do. I did it once, and someone had to talk me off a ledge.

When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.

You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.

I took my menial life for granted until it became clear, why my early years resulted in a lack of adoption.- J.D. Stroube (Rival: Prelude to the Mirage Chronicles.)

People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

You are the universe experiencing itself.

American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

People come to New York City because they want something different... now, people are just getting the sterilized version of that.