I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.

You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

O, treacherous Death! You can't be forgiven for vanquishing my creator to the dust...

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

I always wanted to be a basketball player until I discovered Pizza Pockets.

Societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

C’mon, Tally. Don’t you want your clothes, your keys? Oh wait, how about some dignity? (Kyrian)

In the department of homeland security and each agency that's there there's a morale problem. It's a different morale problem in each one.

Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that.