I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.

You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer... it was just getting too hairy.

In our dreams every man and woman are amazingly perfect, but in reality they have imperfections, so accept it without judgement.

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.

War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else.

I think with true passion you can do so much more than you think is possible.

People are tired of just yelling at the TV set. They actually are going to turn out and vote.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

He wants to put his story next to hers.

God has given us the fascination and mystery of irrational numbers, as one aspect of a rich world