I don't make decisions based on money.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

When he left us, he stole all the words.

A good leader is one who reveals to you your own potential and then inspires and shows you how to reach your potential.

Don't take on more student loans than your future-self can handle.

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

You cannot keep doing the same thing, the same way, and keep expecting something different to happen.

It's money. I remember it from when I was single

Life is moral responsibility.

I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.

Goals don't start in our brain; they start in our heart.