I honestly think being single's great. Being in a relationship's great. It's all about the timing.

I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

Always have a backup plan.

My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

I was really good at saying no. I decided I was just going to say yes to any opportunity that came, no matter how crazy. And it changed my life.

Christian Louboutins are uncomfortable, but I screamed the first time I put on a Pointe Shoe.

I'm still a 'Star Trek' fan. You never stop being one.

I am becoming aware of the truth that people change people as much as ideas change people.The power of personality is strong . . . often personality is greater than the idea.

are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love ?

A dream is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

Anyone with two tunics should share with him who has none.

My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.

I'm not going to go into operational matters, obviously.

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didnt realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.