I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere.

I think the future of food is in insects.

Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change.

Everything is out of your control, and you can only be truthful about how you feel.

I'm done living for other people. I'm done being a people pleaser. I'm done thinking about what people think about me.

Every single morning you wake up with the opportunity to be yourself, or be the idea of someone else. For me it is all about... my favourite mantra is: "You do you. I do me. They do they."

Every single character in the world, every creature in the world has something to give and something to learn.

My religion is the Earth, man. I believe in trees.

I'll never, ever think of myself as famous, even if I ever get to the point of George Clooney... because I Think you might go crazy if you start reffering to yourself in those terms.

Have you thanked your body today? Be grateful, stay positive.

The thing with labels is they're not for you, they're for other people. Like labels are just a word for other people to understand you and that's it.

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls...

Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be.

A man is his tallest when he is down on his knees in prayer.

Lxnig sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.

All I've ever tried to tell anyone is that I'm not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I've ever been was an American.

Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

I know my past is not what my future holds.

By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.