I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.

I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.

I believe there was a big bang and that because of that we are all connected into infinity, and I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection.

I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.

I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

There's no time to hold grudges when you've seen how fragile things can really be.

I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.

Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.

I have a sneaking suspicion that leading an examined life and being really tan aren't consistent with one another.

Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I understood him. "A fine pair we make,” he said. "Yeah.

When people feel safe, they can come up with ideas. It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the stage and living it.

All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what.

I always say if I play my best it's difficult to beat me

Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.