I dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

Love is like a cigarette we all know it kills but don't deny.

To fight our fear each day is to live with the perpetual flame to conquer it.

How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?

Do you know what our suicide rate would be if we didn't have television? Do you know how much happiness I've brought to people who couldn't get out of the house but could watch Love Boat?

Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools.

I admire Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet. I like a lot of comedians. I like Cameron Diaz - she's funny and has a very light spirit. That's quite rare nowadays. There are many actresses I admire.

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.

I didn't go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I'd fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived.