I don't necessarily not believe in ghosts, but I've never seen a ghost. A ghost has never jumped out and been like, 'Hey, how's it going?

When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.

I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.

'Don't be the moth. Be the light bulb.' When I say that I mean don't follow the crowd. Just shine. Be the light bulb. Do your thing. Pave your own path.

I can't live without my iPhone.

Whenever I see young girls wearing way too much makeup... you're young, you don't need that much.

All the women in my family are extremely strong.

I guess I can't live without Netflix because I would have nothing to do. All I do is sit home and watch movies.

The more comedic roles come easier to me though because I see myself as a silly, easy-going person.

People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life and I don't have one friend who is an actor!

How much easier my life would be if I did not love you! I thought. How much less painful, but how much plainer. How much less color there would be in the world.

I decided I would teach Mrs. P. a lesson by cooking my own meal.

Allow Christmas day to blossom in the bosom of your own inner joy & happiness.

You can do anything you wish to do have anything you wish to have be anything you wish to be.

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written is good, nobody can hurt you; if what you have written is bad, nobody can help you.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.

Live music is better.