I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.

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.

Feed your mind with thoughts that inspire, motivate, encourage, empower, educate and instruct you by deliberately choosing the information you allow into your world through sight, sound and people.

Distance is but metrics, unmeasurable is the heart

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out.

I started in Martial Arts with my father when I was 4 years old. I guess I started because my two older brothers and mom trained so it was what our whole family did for fun.

The question for us is not what new story will come out next. The question is, what are we going to do about it?

You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that.

I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.

That wasn't love; that was stupidity.

[There is] the need to feel unique, special, important or needed. Everybody has those needs, including the people that say I don't need to be special.