I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it;s the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.

The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.

What about desserts?" I asked. "If the world comes to an end, I'm going to want cookies.

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.

I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to do with me can destroy my life and the lives of people I love.

I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.

Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.

What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?' 'To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said.

Don't stop believing in miracles.

It’s a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal.

If we need to compete with anyone, we need to compete with ourselves. We need to challenge ourselves to be a better version of ourselves. We need to challenge ourselves to do better every single day.

We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy.

The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.

The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.

I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice and celery, but that’s not even anorexic. And I quit. I was like, 'Ma, can you make me a sandwich? Like, immediately.'

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Nothing would please me more, but who else would pump the oil that we need? God damn America.

I moved with my mom to Los Angeles for her to pursue her acting career, and she got a job casting atmosphere in some independent films.