I hated being a lawyer and I wanted to like myself and like my job.

I am Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds.

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

You show me a truly funny girl who doesn't have emotional issues, and I'll introduce you to my stable of unicorn thoroughbreds ridden by leprechaun jockeys.

Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.

The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them

You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That's what it's like listening to you speak.

I will never understand why people get so upset at things I don't even remember saying.

I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.

Consistency builds trust, confidence builds character.

Life is only precious because it ends, kid.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

God is concerned about everything that concerns us - without exception.

I used to have very good sixth sense - knowing exactly where someone was without seeing them.

I wouldn't say I was bullied per se, but I did get a lot of unwanted attention because I was musical and stood out. In school you don't want to stand out; you want to blend in.

Nirvana is something that cannot be known here. I know it seems incongruous, but it is only incongruous from the perspective of the dialectical consciousness of division, of time and space

Return telephone calls promptly but be judicious about the time spent on the phone.

Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words.

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.