I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.

Stop trying to define who you are and just be.

Don’t worry, be happy! Embrace your weirdness.

We are all a quarter good, a quarter bad, a quarter animal and a quarter child which equals a whole bunch of crazy.

Stay cool, hang loose, admit nothing.

I treat the camera like a person—I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.

The energy you give off is the energy you receive. I really think that, so I'm always myself - JUMPING, dancing, singing around, trying to cheer everybody up.

It's not just that I love bacon so much; I feel like something about bacon reflects my personality. It's salty and it's bad for you and it's delicious. I just love it so f - ing much, that's why.

As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense.

I hate high heels, more than anything.

My sexuality is not a phase. I am who I am.

The mind of a man is his mastermasterpiece.

Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?

Today is a beautiful day. I AM deeply grateful for everything in my life. ALL is welcome here!

Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.

To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?

The vertue of a coward is suspition.

Political means so many things. We are political willy-nilly. Political poetry is an easy invitation to disaster. But then so is love poetry. But we are a little more patient with bad love poetry.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist].

When you’re young you just run, but you come back to what you need.