I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

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.

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 don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.

A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.

Don't the great tales never end?""No, they never end as tales, " said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later – or sooner.

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

Thelonius Monk was not exactly 'the guy next door'.

I've learned over the years that when you get a clue to another possibility to follow it through.

There's no political point worth my son's life.

The machine enslaves, the hand sets free.

Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition."

Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.