I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

Maybe she should stop reading those damn romance novels. They were giving her crazy expectations.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

A column about errors will contain errors.

Nothing. And, I don't start before noon.

it’s easy to get outside yourself when you’re thinking about someone else.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

I've done interviews with actors who I've worked with who I really like, and I'm like, "Wow, look at you. You're just going on . . . You don't even know what you're saying!"

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.