I drive an electric car.

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.

Our thinking makes our life.

Tears are kind of like urine. There is only so long you can hold them in.

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

Music, to me, is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.

They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in.

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.