I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

I'm the luckiest unlucky person.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.

I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.

Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.

When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

I didn't know whether I'd be attractive to anybody.

I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time.

No other woman had that air of spring in January, that ever-bubbling fount of love and hope.

Only if we live consciously, we can die consciously.

The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. But we don't want to see this turned into some great political football

If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up

When you choose the path, you choose the destination.

One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.

Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.

The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't like you' simply means 'I don't have you as a friend.