I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.

Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.

If you aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be mended.

If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.

I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly.

Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.

I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.

I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.

This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.

I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially.

I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.

You are always going to love him, " she said. " You're stuck with that.

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

Being in the studio is a really romantic time.

Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others.

I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.

He's (Jack McKeon) been around baseball for twenty-plus years. He knows what it takes to be a manager. I hope he gets the chance.

These are not necessarily our agendas, but we feel a part of what a performer is, and what a performer has to say is more than just words and music.

It's a very beneficial experience for me that America has started to be interested in me. I get offers here, and I'm very open to having a new spring in my career here.

It's the rare happening when actors get together and you have chemistry, connection, just something that works, that's bigger than what's on the page.