I'm a crier - let me know if you need some tips. I could cry every day, in a good way.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.

Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

My days are whatever I want them to be. I don't have to go worry about chasing some chemical to make me feel OK for a minute, and then make me feel worse.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them.

It’s the Olympics. If you can’t get up to swim early in the morning, don’t go.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

I always say, "When you know it's right, everything will fall into place."

In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock.

I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.

...you have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.

I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.