I guess I wonder what it would be like, to be living their live instead of mine.

Torture: knowing something makes no sense, but doing it anyways.

...The human mind is a complicated place...We hold on to things, images, words, ideas, histories that we don't even know we're holding on to.

Feelings are like blankets, covering you up so you can't see clearly, or like mazes you can too easily get lost inside. I am terrified of getting lost.

That's the thing about anxiety: It's a real time suck.

Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

I don't ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.

Take all the rules away. How can we live if we don't change?

I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.

Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.

Just keep going like crazy and look back when it's over. Otherwise you just get confused.

Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer.

Ever have that one friend who gets a Valentine's Day gift for their mother? Doens't that freak you out a little? It's like, 'I don't know how to break this to you but I think she's banging your dad!'