I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

Always have a backup plan.

My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

I was really good at saying no. I decided I was just going to say yes to any opportunity that came, no matter how crazy. And it changed my life.

Christian Louboutins are uncomfortable, but I screamed the first time I put on a Pointe Shoe.

I'm still a 'Star Trek' fan. You never stop being one.

It was nice to call my parents and proudly tell them, "My lady garden is going viral." In hindsight, that may have been a poor choice of phrasing.

I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I'm an artist, I hate saying that.

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

I was thinking what I usually think about when I write: what the next word should be, whether my character should be an emu farmer or a wallaby farmer, the searing pain in my right temple.

The most important thing in the world is that you make yourself a loving person, because this is what you will be giving away.

Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.

Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it.

Don't fear conflict, fear the silence.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.