I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.

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.

The logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of "true" nature--the certainty that it's not even worth looking at. (62)

Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

If you're a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

It's a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it's a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.

A woman can wear anything- she can make it right.

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.