I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.

.....The biggest mystery of nature is nature.

It’s a strange moment when you realize that you don’t want to be alive anymore.

Parenting should always come from a place of unconditional loving.

I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.

Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence.

I think people sense that - that there is something not right about that equation [in the USA].

Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward.

Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.