I think it's important for people to know that it's okay to feel like you're not better as long as you keep trying.

I tried being anorexic for four hours and then i was like, i need some bagels.

I don't take crap from anyone, so that makes people think I'm rebellious. I'm not. I'm just not a pushover.

There's nothing else I would rather do, unless there was a profession that involved cuddling bunny rabbits and kittens all day for money.

I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.

I like people's attitudes more than fashion or beauty or whatever it is.

There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.

I don't think I'm a weirdo in a bad way. There's just a lot going on in my head.

Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.

I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.

Follow both: the call of the mountain of enlightenment and the temptation of the valley of experience. No mountain without valley, no valley without mountain.

Thank you Bjork Peterson for a wonderful review of my new book "Why We Love Serial Killers" @readingghost

No, she learned that true love was epic stuff, as told by Mary.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought but action.

[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

My first love was singing and I had no time for boys.

I have realized that nothing else matters besides this: Am I doing everything God has put me on this earth to do?

Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly.

If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.

Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished.