I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.

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.

I beseech thee, O Lord, let me have understanding: For it was not my mind to be curious of the high things, but of such as pass by us daily.

The first noble truth says simply that it’s part of being human to feel discomfort.

People will stop trying to prove their something special when they finally realized their already unique in God's creation.

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

The human soul develops up to the time of death.

I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

It's all about raising more money. And they have to keep this alive, so Hillary [Clinton] got cheated.

I'm obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that.

I get a lot of letters from introverts asking how they can meet people. The key is to make sure that you are doing things you enjoy.

Jesus is all the world to me my life, my joy, my all. He is my strength from day to day Without Him, I would fall.